GLOSSARY
This glossary provides clear definitions and explanations of common terms used in car accident law. Whether you’re navigating a personal injury claim, understanding insurance policies, or learning about legal processes, this resource is designed to help you better understand key concepts. From terms like “liability” and “negligence” to “comparative fault” and “damages,” our glossary aims to simplify legal jargon and empower you with the knowledge you need throughout your case.
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- Abstract of Title
- Accident Investigator
- Accident Report
- Act of God
- Actual Cash Value
- Ad Litem
- Adjudicate
- Admissible Evidence
- Admission of Liability
- Affidavit
- Airbags
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Animals and Car Accidents
- Answer
- Appeal
- Arbitration
- Assignment of Benefits
- Assumption of Risk
- At-Fault States in Car Accidents
- Attorney-Client Privilege
- Automobile Liability Insurance
- Bad Drug
- Bad Faith Claim
- Bedsores
- Benefit
- Bodily Injury
- Bodily Injury Liability Insurance
- Burden of Proof
- Car Accident Lawyer
- Car Accidents
- Causation
- Changing Lanes
- Children In The Vehicle
- Circumstantial Evidence
- Civil Court Case
- Civil Rights
- Claim
- Class Action Lawsuit
- Collateral Source Rule
- Collision
- Commercial Vehicles
- Comparative Negligence
- Compensable Injury
- Compensation
- Compensatory Damages
- Complaint
- Compulsory Medical Examination
- Concussion
- Consultation
- Consultation with a Personal Injury Lawyer
- Contributory Negligence
- Damages
- Declaratory Judgement
- Deductible
- Defendant
- Defense in a Personal Injury Case
- Demand Letter
- Diagnosis
- Diagnosis in an Injury Claim
- Direct-Action Lawsuit
- Direct Examination
- Disability Benefits
- Disabling Conditions
- Disclosure
- Discovery
- Dismissal
- Disregarding Police
- Disregarding Stop Signs
- Distracted Driving
- Drinking But Not Impaired
- Driver
- Drivers in a Car Accident Claim
- Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road
- Driving Too Fast for Conditions
- Driving Without a License
- Drug DUI
- DUI
- Duty
- Eggshell Plaintiff
- Emotional Distress
- Estoppel
- Evidence
- Expert Testimony/Expert Witness
- Fault
- First Party Insurance Benefits
- Fraud
- Georgia DDS Point System
- Gross Negligence
- Hazardous Exposure
- Hearsay
- Hit and Run
- Indemnity
- Insurance
- Insured
- Insurer
- Interrogatories
- Jurisdiction
- Jury
- Justification
- Larceny in a Civil Case
- Lawsuit
- Lawyer
- Legal Injury
- Liability
- Lien
- Litigation
- Long-Term Disability
- Loss
- Loss of Consortium
- Lost Wages
- Medical Malpractice
- Medical Malpractice Caps
- Mitigating Circumstances
- Mitigation
- Modified Comparative Negligence
- Motions in a Civil Case
- Motorcycle Accidents
- Negligence
- Negligence Per Se
- No Fault States in Car Accidents
- Notice Requirements
- Oath
- Objections in a Personal Injury Case
- Occupational Disease
- Order
- Pain and Suffering
- Partial Disability
- Party
- Passengers in a Car Accident Claim
- Pedestrian
- Personal Injury
- Phantom Driver
- Plaintiff
- Police Report
- Prejudice
- Premises Liability
- Preponderance of Evidence
- Process
- Products Liability
- Property Damage Liability Insurance
- Proximate Cause
- Punitive Damages
- Reckless Driving
- Recreational Vehicle Accidents
- Release
- Respondeat Superior
- Right of Way
- Settlement
- Short Term Disability
- Social Security Disability (SSD)
- Social Security Disability (SSDI) Insurance
- Sovereign Immunity
- Specific Loss
- Speculation
- SR-22 Insurance
- Standard of Care
- Statute of Limitations
- Stipulation
- Strict Liability
- Subpoena
- Subrogation
- Summons
- Sunlight and Sun Glare
- Super Speeder
- Sympathy
- Testimony
- Third-Party Litigation
- Tort
- Tortfeasor
- Total Disability
- Total Loss
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Trial
- Turning
- U-Turns
- Uninsured Motorist Coverage
- Vehicular Manslaughter
- Venue
- Verdict
- Vicarious Liability
- Victim Impact Statement
- Vocational Rehabilitation
- Voir Dire
- Waiver
- Whiplash
- Witness
- Workers Compensation
- Wrongful Death