Navigating the legal world is complex and filled with unfamiliar terms—especially if you’re looking to understand a personal injury claim. To ensure that our clients have an easier time understanding the process, we’ve put together this helpful glossary of law terms relating to personal injury cases. We hope that this resource can give you greater confidence in understanding your ongoing case or any future ones that may arise.
- 51% Bar Rule
- Act of God
- Actuarial Analysis
- Acute Pain
- Ad Litem
- Adhesion Contract
- Adjudicate
- Adjuster
- Affidavit
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
- Appeal
- Arbitration
- Asbestos
- Assumption of Risk
- At Fault
- At Fault States in Car Accidents
- Attorney-Client Privilege
- Bad Faith Claim
- Benefit
- Bodily Injury
- Breach of Duty
- Onus
- Onus probandi
- Burden of Proof
- Causation
- Chiropractic Care
- Chronic Pain
- Circumstantial Evidence
- Civil Lawsuit
- Civil Rights
- Claim
- Class Action Lawsuit
- Collateral Source Rule
- Comparative Negligence
- Concussion
- Consultation
- Contingency Fee
- Contributory Fault
- Damages
- Declaratory Judgment
- Defendant
- Suspect
- Offender
- Demand Letter
- Deposition
- Disclosure
- Discovery
- Distracted Driving
- Doctrine of Proportionate Responsibility
- Dram Shop Law
- Driver Responsibility Program
- Duty
- Emergency Medical Condition (EMC)
- Pain and Suffering
- Emotional Distress
- Estoppel
- Examination Under Oath
- Excess Judgment
- Expert Witness
- Fault
- File Suit
- First-Party Claim
- First-Party Claimant
- Fraud
- Gross Negligence
- Hazardous Exposure
- HIPAA
- Hit and Run
- Indemnity
- Independent Medical Examination (IME)
- Injury Settlement
- Insurance Adjuster
- Insurance Broker
- Insurance Policy
- Interrogatory
- Interrogatories
- Judgment
- Jurisdiction
- Jury
- Known Loss Rule
- Lawsuit
- Letter of Protection
- Liability
- Lien
- Limit
- Party
- Litigant
- Litigation
- Loss of Consortium
- Mediation
- Medical Malpractice
- Medical Malpractice Caps
- Medical Report
- Mesothelioma
- Mitigating Circumstances
- Motion
- Dereliction of Duty
- Negligence
- Notice to Insurer
- Occupational Disease
- Occupational Therapy
- Offset Provision
- Pain Management
- Partial Disability
- Pecuniary Damages
- Personal Health Information (PHI)
- Personal Injury Protection (PIP)
- Personal Property Inventory
- Physical Therapy
- Plaintiff
- Complainant
- Suer
- Police Report
- Post-Concussion Syndrome (PCS)
- Power of Attorney
- Premises Liability
- Premises Liability Claim
- Premium
- Preponderance of Evidence
- Pretrial
- Product Liability in Texas
- Proof of Loss
- Proximate Cause
- Psychological Counseling
- Public Adjuster
- Exemplary Damages
- Punitive Damages
- Quality of Life
- Rear-end Collision
- Rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation Benefits
- Reinsurance
- Rent-a-Judge
- Reserve
- Resolution
- Risk Strategy
- Sciatica
- Speech Therapy
- Stacking Coverage
- Standard of Care
- Statement of Lost Wages
- Statute of Limitations
- Strict Liability
- Subpoena
- Subrogation
- Tailgating
- Testimony
- Theory of Liability
- Thin-skulled Plaintiff Rule
- Third-Party Claim
- Third-Party Claimant
- Third Party Litigation
- Tolling
- Tort
- Tort Law
- Total Disability
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Underinsured Motorist Coverage (UM)
- Uninsured Motorist Coverage
- Verdict
- Vicarious Liability
- Voir Dire
- Waiver
- Whiplash
- Wrongful Death
- Wrongful Death Action
