Definitions
You will find below a list of definitions for personal injury legal terms and abbreviations found on this website beginning with ‘I’.
- Impaired taste
Impaired taste means everything in your mouth is flavourless. Whilst you can develop impaired taste naturally through aging, it can also be a sign that you have suffered from a head or ear injury.
- Impartial advice
Impartial means without bias. Impartial advice means there is no hidden meaning or influence acting on the advice.
- Industrial deafness
Industrial deafness is suffering hearing loss in your workplace. People who work in an environment of constant, excessive noise without proper hearing protection can develop industrial deafness.
- Industrial disease
An industrial disease is a health condition or illness caused by an unsafe work environment and can take many forms such as noise induced hearing loss, repetitive strain injury or chest conditions.
- Insurance
Insurance is a form of risk management to minimalise your financial loss should something go wrong or not as planned.
- Insurer
Your insurer is the person or company that provides you with an insurance policy that you can buy into for protection from financial loss.
- Issue proceedings
After a reasonable period of time for negotiations, if there is no admission or appropriate offer from the defendant, then you can take the defendant to court by issuing proceedings.