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Personal
Injury is the name given to the branch of tort law that covers
any wrong or damage done to another in his person, property,
rights, or reputation. A personal injury can happen at work,
in a traffic accident, because of a faulty product or a faulty
repair, because of a mistake during medical treatment, or
because you slipped and fell on a wet floor or pavement.
The personal injury can be physical or psychological
but, to be considered actionable, it must occur due to the
negligence or unreasonably unsafe actions of your employer,
a manufacturer, your doctor, your landlord, or some other
person or organization who owes you a duty of ordinary care.
Examples of personal injury law causes of action include negligence
(such as a car accident), professional malpractice, wrongful
death, liable, slander, trespass, and nuisance. If you think
you may have a case for a personal injury , please contact
Pierson Legal Services.
If you've been injured in an accident, keep
in mind that there are time limits on your right to file a
lawsuit. These "statutes of limitation" vary greatly
from state to state and depend upon the type of claim to be
prosecuted in each case. In some instances, the law requires
a claimant to notify potential defendants about any injury
within a short period of time.
If you sit on your rights,
you could lose them. You might have been angry for years over
your neighbor's fence encroaching on part of your property.
But if you wait too long without objecting or taking some
legal action, the law might give your neighbor the right in
the form of a prescriptive easement or adverse possession
to leave the fence there permanently or even retain ownership
of the portion of your property which he has well fenced.
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Slip
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Wrongful
Death
Trucking
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