Personal Injury Law is about torts – civil wrongs recognized by law as grounds for a lawsuit. These wrongs result in an injury and are the basis for a claim by the injured party. The basic principle of tort law is to provide relief for the damages incurred by the injured person and deter others from committing the similar harms. The injured person may sue for damages he or she has endured.

Florida personal injury law: Some general provisions

Personal injury law is a state law created through judges and by legislatures. The law recognizes three general types of torts: intentional torts, negligent torts, and torts based on strict liability.

Intentional torts are those torts for which the defendant intends the consequences of an act. Assault is an example of intentional tort.

Negligence torts, on the other hand, comprise most of the cases under this law. In general, the law imposes a duty on every citizen to behave at least as carefully as a reasonable, ordinary, prudent person in a similar situation. This is known as the reasonable person standard. If the defendant’s actions fall short of the reasonable person standard, then the defendant can be found negligent.

If a plaintiff sues under the theory of strict liability, he or she contends that the defendant is liable regardless of fault. The issue of the defendant’s negligence is irrelevant. The defendant is liable if the defendant’s activity in any way caused the plaintiff’s injury.

Florida personal injury law: Other provisions

There are three other personal injury laws. One of them is medical and professional malpractice law, which deals with unprofessional or unethical conduct by professionals. In the United States, medical malpractice lawsuits comprise the majority of the malpractice lawsuits.

The other type of personal injury law is the “product liability law,” which gives the right to a person injured by a defective product to sue the manufacturer of the product. The third type is the “transportation law,” which deals with automobile, maritime, railroad, and aviation accidents.

Some people believe that personal injury law has increased the amount of frivolous lawsuits. The main aim of these lawsuits is to get fast money. Whatever may be the case, the law gives an injured person his or her day in court.

Slip and fall cases are one of the backbones of Personal Injury Law. But slip and fall cases indicate something very specific. A slip and fall case is when a person is on a premises, such as a store or business, and he or she slips on liquid left out. If the person is seriously injured, he or she can pursue a lawsuit on the grounds that the company, employee or manager on duty acted negligently by both failing to find the liquid and by failing to remove it before a patron slipped. But there is another type of fall associated with personal injury that is generally much more fatal. That type of fall is called an elevated fall.

An elevated fall is when an individual falls from a very high place onto the ground. Persons who are injured may be eligible for compensation if:

• The fall happened while a person was working-this is common among construction workers who have to work on roofs or on cranes and have a good chance of slipping and falling a good distance.

• A club or course-a rock climbing course or a course on skiing may have casualties from falls. If the instructor acted negligently or the owner of the premises on which the fall happened failed to safe guard the area, they may be sued for wrongful death.

• Decks or balconies-deck and balcony collapse is an area of PI law which is separate from falls. But an elevated fall may be a part of a personal injury case or it could become a personal injury case if the there was some sort obstruction that made the victim trip and fall off the balcony. Whether or not the victim was intoxicated at the time of the fall may end up being a large factor in the PI case.

Elevated falls tend to end in more serious personal injury cases as these falls much more frequently end in death. If they do not end in death, they will likely end in much more severe injury and thus much more monetary damage in the form of medical bills, missed wages and rehabilitation costs.

Anytime someone is working at a high elevation, the possibility for serious injury should be evaluated.