Are personal injuries always physical injuries?

A: Personal injury encompasses mental injuries as well. There are many types of cases that result in both physical injury and emotional injury. For example, we recognize that serious and disabling physical injuries can also cause mental anguish, worry, stress, and depression for the person who was injured. Another example would be a wrongful death case. The family of the decedent has not (in most cases) suffered a physical injury, but if successful, they would be entitled to damages for mental anguish, grief, sorrow, loss of companionship, etc. There are also some cases where an individual suffers no, or very minor physical injury, but sustains an emotional injury. An example would be where someone witnessed a horrific event and later suffered from post traumatic stress syndrome.

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