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Do all personal injury cases involve physical injury?

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 by Francis A. Pommett

The term personal injury includes a wide range of injury types. While most Baltimore personal injury cases do involve some degree of physical injury, some cases do not involve any harm to the body at all. Often when one thinks of a personal injury case, they immediately think of a car accident or a slip and fall accident, and visualize the victim with sprains, brakes, whiplash or paralysis. But there are other types of personal injury cases that involve non-physical injuries.

Serious accidents or negligence, for instance, can cause injury to an individual by denying them the ability to continue to work due to trauma, resulting in mental health issues such as post-traumatic stress syndrome that can last a lifetime. Not only may that person suffer from the loss of their sense of purpose, but also possible drastic changes to the emotional wellbeing for themselves and their family and their lifestyle. An event like this that does not involve physical injury, but does involve financial loss should be discussed with a personal injury attorney.

Financial injury could warrant initiating a claim against someone who has damaged your personal property accidentally or intentionally. These damages could be to the tools or equipment of your profession or trade or they could be damages to you car or your home. This type of injury is not physical, but can be devastating. Often personal injury in Baltimore cases of this kind result in significant monetary awards as compensation.

Additionally, not all injuries involve accidents. Anybody can be caused non-physical harm if, for instance, false accusations or other types of injurious remarks are made about that individual thus damaging their reputation. This type of action may result in consequences such as job loss or marital break-up or business collapse that deserve compensation through a personal injury lawsuit. When a person is harmed by comments that clearly are untrue or turn out to be untrue, irreversible damage may be done and a personal injury case may well be warranted.

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Nathanson & Pommett, P.C.
110 E. Lexington Street, Suite 200,
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Phone: 410-685-0888

Posted at 12:53 PM

Topic: Domestic Violence