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Do All Personal Injury Cases Involve Physical Injury?

Monday, September 14, 2009 by William E. Raikes

Not All Personal Injury Cases Involve Physical Injury

For the most part, when you think of personal injury litigation in Fort Pierce, you probably think of car accidents or slip-and-fall injuries, the types of injuries that create physical injury.  You end up laid up in bed or unable to work, drowning in medical bills. 

That’s definitely one kind of personal injury, but there are other kinds, too, and those others kinds are just as eligible for relief from the courts in the form of recovery that reflects the true value of losses you incurred due to the negligence, misconduct, or wrongful acts of another party. 

Physical or bodily injury:

This is the kind of injury most people consider when they think of physical injury.  This includes illness, disability, or bodily damage.  Most personal injury cases do involve physical injury.

Financial injury:

Most cases of physical injury involve some sort of financial injury.  Usually, this takes the form of lost wages because of an inability to work due to the physical injury.  Sometimes, property damage results in significant financial loss, too.

Injury to reputation:

This may sound like an unusual kind of personal injury litigation in fort pierce, but it is still very valid.  If you are the victim of defamation or slander, it can have a pretty serious effect on your emotional stability or on your ability to earn money.

Intentional injury:

Most of the time the standard by which personal injury cases are measured is how negligent a defendant was, but in some instances, the defendant acted purposefully.  When the harm is intentional or when the negligence is so serious that it is considered gross negligence; then you have a personal injury case based in intentional injury.  

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William E. Raikes III
302 South Second Street
Fort Pierce, FL 34950
866-959-4638

Posted at 16:49 PM
Topic: Personal Injury
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