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As a legal term, injury is a harm done to a person due to acts or omissions of other persons. Harm may be of various kinds: bodily injury , psychological trauma , loss of property or reputation, breach of contract , etc. Injury may give rise to civil tort or criminal prosecution.
Serious injury: In 2015, the European Union defined a concept of serious injures in order to share the same definition across the whole European Union. [6] This new concept is based on MAIS (from the English Maximum Abbreviated Injury Scale). Based on this standard, serious injuries are defined as scale 3 and more (or MAIS3+).
Personal injury is a legal term for an injury to the body, mind, or emotions, as opposed to an injury to property. [1] In common law jurisdictions the term is most commonly used to refer to a type of tort lawsuit in which the person bringing the suit (the plaintiff in American jurisdictions or claimant in English law) has suffered harm to their ...
This includes assault occasioning actual bodily harm, where the victim suffers injuries such as bruising or skin abrasions (the converse being an injury that is "transient and trifling"); wounding (a piercing of all layers of the skin); and causing grievous bodily harm (injuries more serious than in actual bodily harm, for example broken bones).
The Third and Fourth Departments have begun to consider post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a ‘serious injury’ under Insurance Law §5102(d)’s definition of “significant limitation of ...
The Court recognized only the pre-Dillon form of NIED, though, in that the plaintiff had to be within a zone of danger to recover in the absence of physical injury. In 1999, Hawaii took NIED even further by expressly holding that "damages may be based solely upon serious emotional distress, even absent proof of a predicate physical injury." [6]
Intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED; sometimes called the tort of outrage) [1] is a common law tort that allows individuals to recover for severe emotional distress caused by another individual who intentionally or recklessly inflicted emotional distress by behaving in an "extreme and outrageous" way. [2]
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