LOS ANGELES
PERSONAL INJURY LAW OVERVIEW
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Los Angeles personal injury law is an area of law
that contains a broad range of various, more specific
subjects. The following are of explanations select
subjects involved in Los Angeles personal injury law:
Class
Action Suits
(Covered in Personal Injury Law)
This is a lawsuit filed by one or more people representing
the interests of an entire class of people in litigation
"who are similarly situated." Examples might
include: all women who have suffered from defective
contraceptive devices or breast implants, all those
overcharged by a public utility during a particular
period, or all those who were underpaid by an employer
in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. If a
class action is successful, a period of time is given
for those who can prove they fit the class to file
claims to participate in the judgment amount. Class
actions are difficult and expensive to file and follow
through, but the results can be helpful to people
who could not afford to carry a suit alone. They can
force businesses that have caused broad damage to
change their practices and/or pay for damages. They
often result in high fees for the winning attorneys,
although often attorneys do not collect a fee at the
beginning of a class action suit but might charge
a contingent fee (such as one-third of the final judgment),
which, occasionally, can be millions of dollars. Such
fees usually require court approval.
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Elder
Abuse Law
(Covered in Personal Injury Law)
Physical
abuse law
Neglect
law
Abandonment
law
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Malpractice
Law
(Covered in Personal Injury Law)
Malpractice is an act or by a professional who does
not meet the standard of professional competence and
results in attestable damages to his/her client or
patient. Such an error may be carried out through
carelessness, lack of knowledge, or deliberate wrongdoing.
However, malpractice does not include the exercise
of professional judgment even when the results are
harmful to the client or patient. Except in cases
of extremely obvious or intentional wrongs, in order
to prove malpractice there must be testimony of an
expert as to the acceptable standard of care applied
to the specific act or conduct which is claimed to
be malpractice and testimony of the expert that the
professional did not meet that standard. The defendant
then can produce his/her own expert to counter that
testimony. In actions against attorneys it is mandatory
that the plaintiff prove that the error, if any, caused
damages. This means that a lawsuit, claim or negotiation
the attorney was handling would have resulted in a
win or better recovery except for the malpractice.
Plastic surgery malpractice is an act or by a professional who does not meet the
standards of professional competence as established
by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and results
in attestable damages to his/her client or patient.
Such an error may be carried out through carelessness,
lack of knowledge, or deliberate wrongdoing.
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Serious Personal Injury
Law
(Covered in Personal Injury Law)
Personal injury refers to the area of law that aimed
at protecting individuals who are hurt by the action
or inaction of another person or entity. A personal
injury claim can be filed for injury sustained by
an individual either physically or mentally, and it
can sometimes include damage to property. In certain
situations a person may bring a personal injury lawsuit
on behalf of a loved one. Personal injury lawyers
seek to win compensation for their clients.
There are two factors present in every personal injury
case: liability and damages. The first involves indicating
that the person or entity being charged did in fact
bear legal responsibility for the injury. Damages,
refers to the extent or amount of injury or loss that
was supposedly experienced on account of the defendant's
actions.
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Tort
Law
(Covered in Personal Injury Law)
A tort is a civil wrong or wrongful act, whether intentional
or accidental, from which injury occurs to another.
Torts include all negligence cases as well as intentional
wrongs which result in harm. Some intentional torts
may also be crimes, such as assault, battery, wrongful
death, fraud, conversion (a euphemism for theft) and
trespass on property and form the basis for a lawsuit
for damages by the injured party. Defamation, including
intentionally telling harmful untruths about another-either
by print or broadcast (libel) or orally (slander)-is
a tort and used to be a crime as well.
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