Glossary

Adequate Security - Proportionate condition of not being threat ed, especially physically, psychologically, or emotionally.
Air Embolism - A medical condition caused by gas bubbles in the bloodstream.
Catastrophic Injury - Any enormous and disastrous damage or violation of the person.
Civil Actions - A lawsuit between private parties, including an action by a private person against a government entity, which will be treated as a private party by the court.
Compensable - Something for which money is paid.
Compensatory Damages - Compensatory money damages are intended to make you "whole".
Foreseeable Injuries - The ability to anticipate being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, or emotionally.
Jury Verdict - A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case by a group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law.
Latent Dangers - Existing or present but concealed or inactive exposure to liable harm.
Letter of Protection -
Litigate - To go to law.
Liable - Bound or obliged in law or equity
Martindale-Hubbell - one of the oldest and best-known catalogues of lawyers in the United States.
Medical Payments Coverage - This type of coverage provides payments for medical treatments for bodily injury due to a covered accident and up to the coverage limit.
Negligence - The failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation; any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury.
Nitrogen Illness - Illness after a decrease in the ambient pressure that a body is exposed to.
Orthopedic Injury - Damage or violation of the bones and associated muscles and joints.
Paralysis - A condition where the sufferer loses voluntary control of part of their body, such as one or more limbs.
Patient Abuse - Improper treatment of someone who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
Personal Injury - Damage or violation of, the person.
PIP -
Punitive Damages - Intended to punish the defendant and to discourage the conduct of the type the defendant engaged in.
Quality of Life - The standard of living, amount of money and access to goods and services, freedom, happiness and health that a person has.
Severe Neurologic Injuries - Intense damage or violation of the brain.
Spinal Cord Injuries - Damage or violation of the major part of the vertebrate central nervous system.
Traumatic Brain Injury - Damage or violation causing a serious injury to the brain.
Trial Attorney - One who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession while appearing at judicial court.
Wrongfully Injured - Improper damage or violation to the person.