Sentences with phrase «where psychological injury»
«Over time, I believe we will get to the point where psychological injury arising from vicarious trauma is a well recognised work, health and safety issue.»
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As per the Protocol: «soft tissue injury claim» means a claim brought by an occupant of a motor vehicle where the significant physical injury caused is a soft tissue injury and includes claims where there is a minor psychological injury secondary in significance to the physical injury.»
Tricia brings 15 years of experience to the Personal Injury Law Practice Group at Harrison Pensa llp where she assists clients who have sustained physical and / or psychological injuries as a result of motor vehicle collisions or slip and falls.
Where appropriate, we can also prove psychological injuries and address underinsured and uninsured motorist claims.
In the latter cases the psychological injury will be compensable on the basis of a pre-existing thin skull, except only in cases where the psychological problem is so dominant as a pre-existing condition and the injuries sustained in the accident are so trivial that the accident can no longer be said to be a sufficient cause in law to support an award of damages on the basis of proximate cause.
And there are those psychological symptoms where the defendant's wrongful act triggers a pre-existing psychological condition so that both the defendant's wrongful act and the pre-existing condition are causes - in - fact of the psychological injury (Yoshikawa v. Yu).
The argument that where there has been a significant award for psychological injury there should be no, or a limited, award of aggravated damages — put forward in Goswell v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis CA, 1998, unreported — has again been rejected.