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Personal Injury is Not a Personal Problem

20th October 2010
By phil in Personal Injury
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A personal injury is more than an injury occurred by one‘s self and is definitely not a person problem. This type of injury is one that is caused to the mind, body or emotions. Lawyers who take on personal injury claims are required to help the injured prove negligence on the part of a second party, be it another individual or even an entire business. Defamation can also be a part of a case that a lawyer will attempt to corroborate, but defamation can be extremely hard to prove. Defamation is a misrepresentation that occurs either through libel, which is a published or written lie, or through slander, which is a spoken lie. There needs to be a tangible evidence that proves defamation to be true; it can‘t just be the prosecutor‘s word against the defendant‘s.
Negligence is not the same as carelessness. Negligence cases are where the lawyer must prove that the party claimed to have been negligent breached their civil duty that they owed to someone else. An example of this is a business offering a certain medication, and telling what can occur due to side effects, but they aren‘t completely honest on everything that can occur even though they know of the untold side effects. They weren’t being careless, but rather breached their civil contract of fully explaining the side effects of the medication. Because they weren’t honest about the side effects, they were putting these unknowing patients at risk.

There are a variety of types of personal injury cases which include automobile accidents, work related incidents, and defective product accidents. There are lawyers out there who will fight for the injured when the second party is claiming to not be at fault. It may be hard for someone to prove their case when they aren’t aware how to go about it. That is why lawyers can be extremely helpful people in the event of personal injury.

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