Personal injuries due to negligence are those that occur because someone else wasn’t careful. Negligence means you or a loved one didn’t receive appropriate care, unnecessary mistakes were made, or you were harmed because of someone’s laziness or intentional ignorance.
Negligence means:
- A person fails to act in a reasonable manner, which
- Results in someone else’s injury or property damage.
An accident can be an act of negligence as well. The person who causes harm doesn’t need to be acting illegally to be at fault. It just means he or she didn’t take reasonable care to avoid injuring someone else. This can range from everything from not tying down debris in the back of a pickup truck to no cleaning up broken glass on the ground where other people walk.
Personal injuries caused by negligence can result in high medical expenses and a lifetime of pain and suffering. They affect not only the person injured, but also their friends and family. Personal injuries are costly to heal, time-consuming to overcome, and emotionally and physically draining to everyone involved.