This brief excerpt is taken from the award-winning original article written by successful personal injury attorney Charles Jerome Ware in 1998 in : THE BUSINESS MONTHLY : The Business Newspaper of Howard County, Columbia & Laurel, Volume 6, Number 6 ( June 1998), page 21. This popular article on basic personal injury law is still very much relevant and material in today's personal injury
environment :
" By definition, 'personal injury law' is that area of law designed to protect you and your property when injury or harm is inflicted because of somebody else's act or failure to act. It is also known as 'tort law'. In a successful personal injury or tort action, the person who caused the injury or harm is called upon to compensate the person who suffered the losses. Generally there are three established theories of personal injury or tort liability : negligence, strict liability and intentional misconduct.
* * * Negligence is the basis for liability in the majority of personal injury lawsuits, including automobile accidents and medical malpractice. * * * In the area of strict liability, designers and
manufacturers are held strictly liable for injuries caused by their defective products. * * * Intentional
misconduct claims of personal injury or tort liability must allege and prove more than just careless actions by another person. It must be alleged and proved that the offending person intended to engage in the offending conduct that he or she engaged in.
* * * Automobiles are at the center of more lawsuits in the United States than anything else, and
' automobile accidents' is the area in which the majority of personal injury actions arise. * * *
Every personal injury or tort claim ... has two basic issues: liability and damages. * * * If you can prove liability and damages, you are in the money : our American system of justice will award you
compensation for your loss. * * * *
[ Attorney Charles Jerome Ware is nationally-recognized as a premiere personal injury and wrongful death lawyer. He is founder and president of Charles Jerome Ware, P.A., Attorneys and Counselors,
a highly respected and successful boutique national law firm which is headquartered conveniently in Columbia, Howard County, Maryland. For an initial courtesy consultation, contact us at www.charlesjeromeware.com, (410) 720-6129, or (410) 730-5016. We are " here to make a difference." We fight, you win. ]
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