Tag: Injury

  • Negligence

    Negligence in United States Negligence Definition The breach of a legal noncontractual duty to use care, with no precise intention of producing a particular injury thereby. See Shear. & R. Neg. §3; Beven, Emp. Liab. An inadvertent imperfection by a responsible human agent in the […]

  • Injury

    Injury in the United States Damage done to any legally protected interest of someone else. Injury may take a variety of forms, but generally involves damage to one’s person, rights, property, or reputation. Injuries may be private or public. Private injury is infringement of individual […]

  • Cause

    Cause in United States Cause Definition (Lat. causa). That which supplies the motive, or constitutes the reason, for any act. See Probable Cause. In Civil Law. The consideration or motive for making a contract. Dig. 2. 14. 7; TouUier, Dr. Civ. liv. 3, tit. 3, c. 2, ยง 4. In Pleading. Reason; […]

  • Medicare Set-Asides

    Medicare Set-Asides in the United States Medicare set-asides are a complex subject that personal injury litigators need to understand. By James P. Larsen. He is a partner at Gillin, Jacobson, Ellis, Larsen & Lucey in Orinda, specializes in personal injury cases. Medicare as Secondary […]

  • Mitigation Of Damages

    Mitigation Of Damages in United States Practical Information Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982A rule that the plaintiff must exercise due care to avoid making an injury worse; facts that show that the amount of damages or the size of a claim is more than the plaintiff is […]

  • Joint Tortfeasors

    Joint Tortfeasors in United States Practical Information Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982People whose separate wrongs unite in producing a single injury, for example, negligence (in U.S. law) of two drivers causing a collision. If the defendants are treated as joint […]