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Terminal Illness: A medical condition
which is expected to result in a person's death
within six (6) months; no recovery expected.
Tort: Any action or inaction that wrongs,
damages, or injures another, and thus forms the
basis of a civil lawsuit.
Trial: Many cases do not settle out of
court. For whatever reason, the opposing sides just
don't see eye-to-eye on important issues of
liability and/or damages. Typically, the case has
already gone through the filing of a lawsuit,
discovery, settlement demand stage, arbitration
and/or mediation, and is now ready for the formal
conclusion of the court process, which is a trial
and a jury verdict. There is no stage in the entire
process of resolving a personal injury claim in
which an individual claimant or an inexperienced
attorney will be more vulnerable than at trial. The
attorney must be completely familiar with both the
statewide rules and the rules of the local court
that may apply to trial scheduling, jury selection,
introduction of evidence, questioning of witnesses,
requests for jury instructions, and so on.
