If you plan on hiring a personal injury lawyer, this probably means you have recently sustained damage due to the negligence or wrongdoing of a third party. In such a case, as in most legal cases, it is usually advisable to have at least some knowledge of the law yourself, before you rush out to entrust your case to a lawyer. Most personal injury cases, for instance, have a lot to do with tort law. But what is tort law? And which part of this vast legal domain are you interested in? What provisions apply, and which ones don?t? There are many questions to be posed in such a situation, and this article cannot cover the answers to all of them, due to space constraints. However, what it can provide is a basic introduction to tort law and the specific categories it includes. This will hopefully help you as your case progresses or, at the very least, will come to your aid in your efforts of locating a professional, well-trained lawyer.
Negligence
Many court cases which fall under the incidence of tort law are caused by negligent action. This action is provoked by the defendant who, under all provisions of contractual and/or legal forms, was supposed to ensure a form rights. Negligence can be performed by agencies or entities who had been previously entrusted to safeguard your legal rights, your personal safety, your bodily integrity, your property or even causes in which you had some form of economic interest. In other words, if you have been involved in a car accident and sustained an injury, this constitutes tort by negligence. Similarly, accidents while at work or those which have taken place during the course of medical treatment also constitute negligence. A company which fails to stipulate certain safety measure provisions on labels can also be found guilty of negligence, but such cases are also covered by other laws.
Intentional Tort
Tort committed intentionally relates to cases of trespassing, imprisonment without just cause and certain defamation cases. Essentially, if someone has done you wrong intentionally, this will fall under the category of intentional tort. In terms of rights and liberties, it is said that the defendant?s actions prevented you to fully and freely enjoy the use of your property or exercising your rights and freedoms. When the rights and liberties of two or more entities or agencies overlap to damaging effect, one of them can be found guilty of having committed tort.
Liability Tort Cases
Liability tort or quasi-torts are cases in which one person or organization is held directly responsible before the law for the actions committed by another. For instance, if you sue in a personal injury court case and the defendant is a minor, then the person held responsible for the harm you have been caused is the parent. An equally valid example is any type of injury sustained during work hours. Your employer?s representative will have to appear before the legal authorities in order to respond to your claim for damages.
February 17, 2012
Source: http://legal-lab.com/tort-law-101-what-you-need-to-know-for-your-personal-injury-case/
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