Catastrophic Impairment
The most severe type of personal injury. This type of impairment would include: quadriplegia, brain damage scoring a 9 or below (see Glasgow Coma Scale), impairment of a person up to 55%, and paraplegia.
Related
- Abet
- Absolute Discharge
- Accident Benefits
- Act
- Action
- Adjuster
- Aid
- Appearance
- Assize
- At Bar
- Attendant Care
- Attorney General
- Automatism
- Bail
- Bill
- Bona Fide
- Break and Enter
- Brain Injury
- Canadian Bill of Rights
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Caregiver Benefit
- Case Manager
- Caveat
- Challenge for Cause
- Conspiracy
- Circumstantial Evidence
- Cite or Citation
- Claim
- Claimant
- Co-Conspirator
- Compensatory Damages
- Concurrent Sentence
- Conditional Discharge
- Conditional Sentence
- Consecutive Sentence
- Contemnor
- Contempt of Court
- Cross Examination
- Damages
- Deductible
- Defendant
- Direct Evidence
- Duty
- Economic Loss
- Emotional Distress
- Examination in Chief
- Extortion
- False Pretence
- First Degree Murder
- Forseeability
- Fraud
- Functional Limitations
- Future Damages
- Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
- Health Care Expenses
- Homicide
- Income Replacement Benefits
- Insane Automatism
- Intentional Torts
- Intermittent Sentence
- Law Reports
- Law Society
- Legislation
- Legislature
- Limitations Period
- Long-time Offender
- Loss of Consortium
- Maximum Sentence
- Mediation
- Minimum Sentence
- Negligence
- Non-Earner Benefit
- Non-Insane Automatism
- Offence
- Pardon
- Parole
- Particulars
- Personal Injury Law
- Plaintiff
- Pleading
- Pre-Claim Examination
- Preliminary Inquiry
- Presumption of Innocence
- Pre-Trial Conference
- Privilege
- Product Liability Law
- Punitive Damages
- Reasonable Doubt
- Reasonable Person Standard
- Registry
- Self-Defence
- Specific Deterrence
- Statement of Claim
- Statement of Defence
- Statute
- Strict Liability Law
- Suspended Sentence
- Theft
- Threshold
- Tort Law
- Uttering
- Writ of Summons
- Young Offenders Act