Personal Injury

Personal injury is the broad field of civil litigation concerned with compensating people harmed by the fault of others, and medical malpractice is one specialized branch of it. The tag situates medical negligence within that wider context and is used for content addressing personal injury principles that bear on, or sit alongside, medical malpractice claims.

Personal injury and medical malpractice share core building blocks, including the negligence framework of duty, breach, and causation, the heads of damages, and the limitation rules under the Limitations Act, 2002. They differ in important ways, most notably the central role of expert evidence in establishing the medical standard of care, which makes medical malpractice among the most demanding forms of personal injury litigation.

Posts tagged Personal Injury analyze personal injury principles and developments relevant to medical malpractice and the wider civil litigation practice.