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2. Personal injury - Wikipedia

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   Personal injury is a legal term for an injury to the body, mind, or emotions, as opposed to an injury to property. [1] In common law jurisdictions the term is most commonly used to refer to a type of tort lawsuit in which the person bringing the suit (the plaintiff in American jurisdictions or claimant in English law) has suffered harm to their ...

3. Statute of limitations - Wikipedia

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   Statute of limitations. A statute of limitations, known in civil law systems as a prescriptive period, is a law passed by a legislative body to set the maximum time after an event within which legal proceedings may be initiated. [ 1][ 2] In most jurisdictions, such periods exist for both criminal law and civil law such as contract law and ...

4. Wrongful death claim - Wikipedia

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   Wrongful death is a type of legal claim or cause of action against a person who can be held liable for a death. [ 1] The claim is brought in a civil action, usually by close relatives, as authorized by statute. In wrongful death cases, survivors are compensated for the harm and losses they have suffered after losing a loved one.

5. Pain and suffering - Wikipedia

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   Pain and suffering is the legal term for the physical and emotional stress caused from an injury [ 1] (see also pain and suffering ). Some damages that might come under this category would be: aches, temporary and permanent limitations on activity, potential shortening of life, depression or scarring. When filing a lawsuit as a result of an ...

6. Non-economic damages caps - Wikipedia

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   Tort law. Non-economic damages caps are tort reforms to limit ( i.e., "cap") damages in lawsuits for subjective, non-pecuniary harms such as pain, suffering, inconvenience, emotional distress, loss of society and companionship, loss of consortium, and loss of enjoyment of life. [ 1][ 2] This is opposed to economic damages, which encompasses ...

7. What is the statute of limitations on debt? - AOL

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   For example, if you miss a payment on a debt with a five-year statute of limitations on July 1, 2024, then after July 1, 2029, the statute of limitations will have passed. At this point, the ...