Personal Injury Glossary
Navigating Personal Injury Law: An A-Z Glossary
MyLegalWin’s Personal Injury Law glossary provides concise definitions for the key terms you may encounter throughout your legal journey. Whether you’re researching your rights, pursuing compensation, or exploring your legal options, our glossary will help demystify the language commonly used in personal injury cases. Gain confidence as you familiarize yourself with the fundamental concepts and terminology that shape your path to seeking justice.
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- Affidavit
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appeal
- Arbitration
- Assault
- Assignment
- Battery
- Burden of Proof
- Catastrophic Injury
- Cause of Action
- Class Action
- Class Certification
- Collateral Source Rule
- Comparative Fault
- Comparative Negligence
- Compensation
- Compensatory Damages
- Compulsory Medical Examination
- Contribution
- Contributory Negligence
- Cross-Examination
- Damages
- Dangerous Condition
- Defamation
- Defendant
- Defendant’s Answer
- Deposition
- Derivative Claim
- Discovery
- Discovery Phase
- Discovery Rule
- Duty of Care
- Duty of Loyalty
- Duty to Warn
- Emotional Distress
- Evidentiary Hearing
- Expert Opinion
- Expert Report
- Expert Testimony
- Foreseeability
- General Damages
- Gross Negligence
- Guardian ad Litem
- Harm
- Hearsay
- Hostile Witness
- Independent Contractor
- Infliction of Emotional Distress
- Informed Consent
- Insurance Coverage
- Intentional Tort
- Interrogatories
- Intervening Cause
- Invasion of Privacy
- Joint and Several Liability
- Jury Instructions
- Legal Malpractice
- Liability
- Lien
- Litigation
- Lost Wages
- Mass Tort
- Material Fact
- Mediation
- Medical Malpractice
- Mitigation of Damages
- Motion for Directed Verdict
- Motion in Limine
- Motion to Dismiss
- Motion to Exclude Evidence
- Motion to Quash
- Negligence
- Negligence Per Se
- Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress
- No-Fault Insurance
- Notice of Claim
- Opening Statement
- Pain and Suffering
- Pleadings
- Preponderance of Evidence
- Prima Facie
- Product Liability
- Proximate Cause
- Punitive Damages
- Reasonable Care
- Reasonable Foreseeability
- Reasonable Person
- Res Ipsa Loquitur
- Respondeat Superior
- Reversible Error
- Settlement
- Settlement Agreement
- Settlement Conference
- Settlement Demand
- Spoliation of Evidence
- Stacking Insurance
- Statute of Limitations
- Statute of Repose
- Strict Liability
- Subpoena