Does a personal injury include property damage?
Does a personal injury include property damage?
In legal terms, the definition of a personal injury is an injury that occurs as a result of someone else's negligence. This can include any kind of physical injury, such as a broken arm or back, but it also includes any type of financial damage that you might suffer because of someone else's mistake.
When you're looking at the phrase "property damage," then, ask yourself what it means to damage something. If your car is damaged when another driver rear-ends you, for example, you would likely be able to file a claim for damages. If your home is damaged in a fire started by the furnace company that was supposed to be installing a new furnace, you could also file a claim for damages.
But if there's an issue with your property and it causes some other type of damage, such as if water starts to leak from your upstairs bathroom and damages your downstairs floors, you probably wouldn't be able to file a claim for damages because these two things aren't actually related. So, when it comes to property damage and personal injuries, the key is to remember the definition of damage: in order to have property damage caused by another person's negligence, there has to be damage that came about directly because of that person's negligence.
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