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.

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