Sentences with phrase «psychiatric injury caused»

Primary victims should be confined to persons who had suffered psychiatric injury caused by fear or distress resulting from involvement in a stressful event such as an accident or its immediate aftermath.

Goldfinger Law acts for accident victims who have sustained psychological or psychiatric claims such as anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, depression, suicidal ideation, nervous shock, dementia, mood disorder, stress disorder, psychotic disorder, hallucinations, nightmares, fatigue, anger, rage, delusional disorder, personality disorder, adjustment disorder, substance abuse disorder, psychosis, conversion disorder or any other psychological or psychiatric injury caused or exacerbated on account of a personal injury.

To conclude, the fall in the discount rate only affects tribunal claims which include an element of personal injury (usually psychiatric injury caused by discrimination at work).

Reasons for judgement were released today by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, assessing damages for chronic physical and psychiatric injuries caused by a vehicle collision.

Not exact matches

Since the 1920s there has been clear medical evidence to demonstrate that boxing can cause traumatic brain injury, irreversible neurological dysfunction, concussion, psychiatric conditions, eye and ear injuries, and death.

(ii) In order to recover damages for psychiatric injury as an «unwilling participant», the claimant's injury must be caused by a genuine and reasonable belief that he has caused the death or injury of another.

The employer was held to be in breach of it by the investigating panel, but it was held that this breach could not have been expected to cause psychiatric injury, so any loss arising from the breach was too remote to be recoverable.

She expressed her provisional view that in the case of an indivisible psychiatric injury where it is not scientifically possible to establish the amount of the tortious material contribution to injury, it was not necessary for a judge to apportion damages across the board merely because one non-tortious cause had been in play.

Damages for personal injury allegedly caused by negligent psychiatric treatment by Dr W S Kerr, negligence in supervision of Dr Kerr by the Authority and by employees of the Authority in failing to report instances of inappropriate treatment.

Personal injury claims arising where stressful working conditions foreseeably cause psychiatric injury routinely yield compensation payments of six figures or more.

Lord Hoffmann said that the ratio of Page was that where a foreseeable event had occurred which could have caused either physical injury or psychiatric injury to a primary victim, damages for either form of injury was recoverable.

He then considered other tort situations causing dispositional damage, which he described as «the background of comparable awards for psychiatric damage in personal injury cases, for injury to feelings in cases of sex and race discrimination and damages for bereavement».