Common Personal Injury Legal Terms
The following terms may be used in your personal injury lawsuit and are common when describing types of personal injury and our various areas of practice. In the event that you move forward with pursuing a personal injury claim including a product liability complaint, wrongful death complaint, brain injury complaint, dog bite injury, slip and fall injury, automobile accident or automobile defect complaint, or a variety of other injuries you have sustained as the result of another’s negligence or wrongdoing, you may encounter some or all of the following terms.
- Affidavit
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA")
- Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA")
- Answer
- Arbitration
- Arbitrator
- At-will employment
- Attorney Client Privilege
- Back Injury
- Back pay
- Bad Faith
- Burden of Proof
- Burn Injury
- Cafeteria plan
- Case evaluation
- Claim
- Collective bargaining
- Comparable worth
- Complaint
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act ("COBRA")
- Constructive discharge
- Contingency Fee
- Cross-examination
- Defendant
- Defendants
- Demand letter
- Deposition
- Direct Examination
- Disability
- Discovery
- Discrimination
- Docket
- Employee assistance program ("EAP")
- Employee stock ownership plan ("ESOP")
- Employment at will doctrine
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC")
- Equal Pay Act
- Evidence
- Expert Witness
- Family Medical Leave Act ("FMLA")
- Federal Tort Claims Act
- Front pay
- Garnishment of wages
- Hostile working environment
- Implied contract
- Interrogatory
- Lawsuit
- Liability Insurance
- Liable
- Medical Malpractice
- Minimum wage
- Mitigation
- Motion
- National origin discrimination
- Negligence
- Negligent
- Noncompetition agreement
- Occupational disease
- Occupational Safety & Health Administration ("OSHA")
- Overtime compensation
- Paralegal
- Party
- Pension
- Personal Injury
- Plaintiff
- Power of Attorney
- Product Liability
- Reduction in force
- Retaliation
- Right to work doctrine
- Settlement
- Settlement Mediation
- Severance package
- Sexual harassment
- Slip and fall
- Social Security
- Soft Tissue Injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Statute of Limitations
- Summary Judgment
- Summons
- Termination
- Testimony
- Title VII
- Tort
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Verdict
- Whistle blowing
- Whistleblower
- Witness
- Wrongful Death
