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Personal injury is a legal term for an injury to the body, mind, or emotions, as opposed to an injury to property. [1] In common law jurisdictions the term is most commonly used to refer to a type of tort lawsuit in which the person bringing the suit (the plaintiff in American jurisdictions or claimant in English law) has suffered harm to their ...
The legal phrase or legal maxim casum sentit dominus is a tenet of Roman private law and a feature of most European civil law systems. [7] It means that the owner has to carry the risk of any loss or harm that occurs accidentally to him or his property (casus). [7]
Accidental Loss. The event that constitutes the trigger of a claim should be fortuitous, or at least outside the control of the beneficiary of the insurance. The loss should be 'pure', in the sense that it results from an event for which there is only the opportunity for cost.
The United States Tax Court ruled that the accidental destruction of the diamond ring was a casualty loss and, therefore, deductible. [3] After hearing the taxpayer testify to the surrounding facts and circumstances, the court determined that the dropping of the ring down the garbage disposal was “inadvertent and accidental.”
An accidental death is an unnatural death that is caused by an accident, such as a slip and fall, traffic collision, or accidental poisoning. Accidental deaths are distinguished from death by natural causes, disease, and from intentional homicides and suicide. An accidental death can still be considered a homicide or suicide if a person was the ...
English tort law concerns the compensation for harm to people's rights to health and safety, a clean environment, property, their economic interests, or their reputations. A "tort" is a wrong in civil law, [1] rather than criminal law, that usually requires a payment of money
In the event of an accidental death, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, often abbreviated as "AD&D", will pay benefits in addition to any life insurance held by the insured. Accidental deaths are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. [4] Some accident insurance policies will include benefits for accidental death and dismemberment.
As a legal term, injury is a harm done to a person due to acts or omissions of other persons. Harm may be of various kinds: bodily injury, psychological trauma, loss of property or reputation, breach of contract, etc. Injury may give rise to civil tort or criminal prosecution.