Mesothelioma Legal Terms
The following list of Mesothelioma legal terms, definitions, and explanations are commonly used in Mesothelioma and asbestos lawsuits.
When you file a Mesothelioma lawsuit, many of these legal terms will be used in your Mesothelioma lawsuit. These will help give Mesothelioma patients and their families a better understanding of the most common and some uncommon words related to a Mesothelioma lawsuit.
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A – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Additur - When a judge thinks that the jury has not recommended enough money for the plaintiff and orders that an additional amount be added to the total.
Ad Litem
Administrative Hearing
Adjudicated Asbestos Lawsuit
Affidavit
Amendment - Change to the plaintiff's pleading or the defendant's response. All amendments are filed with court and given to the opposing sides.
Amicus Curiae
Answer
Appeal- After a trial judge enters a judgment, one of the parties may ask a higher-level court to review the judgment to make sure that it was justified.
Appellate- Appellate court is a court with higher authority that the one where the trial was.
Asbestos Attorney
Asbestos Bankruptcy Funds
Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts
Construction Material
Asbestos Documents
Asbestos Lawsuit
Asbestos Legislation
Asbestos Liabilities
Asbestos Litigation
Asbestos Manufacturers Can be Held Liable
Asbestos Related Claims
Asbestos Trust Fund
Asbestos Victims Compensation Fund
Asbestos in the Workplace
Assumption of the Risk
Attorney-Client Privilege
Award - A decision made by a court, usually involving money. A plaintiff may get an "award" of money from the defendant.
B – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Bad Faith
Bench Trial - Non-Jury Trial
Beneficiary
Best Evidence Rule
Breach
Breach of Duty
Breach of Trust
Breach of Warranty
Burden of Proof
Bystander - Related to Product Liability
Bundled Mesothelioma Cases
Burden of Proof
C – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Cause of Action
Caveat
Choosing an Asbestos Lawyer
Circumstantial Evidence
Claimants
Claims
Class Action
Client:The person who hires a lawyer for legal services.
Contingency fees:What a personal-injury attorney gets paid if he or she wins a case for the client. If the attorney loses the case, he or she does not get paid.
Closing Statement
Co-Counsel
Collateral Source Rule
Compensation
Compensation Fund
Compensatory Damages
Complainant
Complaint
Contingency Fee Agreement
Contingent
Corroborating Evidence
D – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Damages
Damages Phase
Decedent
Decree
Defendant
Deliberate
Demurrer
De Novo
Deposition
Deprived of the Companionship
Directed Verdict
Disbursement
Discovery:The process after a law suit is filed, but before trial begins, in which both sides gather and disclose as much information about a case as possible. Interrogatories, depositions and requests for production are all part of the discovery process.
Dismissal
Disfigurement in the Past and Future
Do-Not-Resuscitate Order - DNR
Due Diligence
Durable Power of Attorney
E – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Economic Damages
Employer Liability
Estate Planning
Estoppel
Exemplary Damages
Exhibit
Expert Witness
Exemplary Damages
F – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Fact Question
Federal Employers Liability
Fiduciary
File an Asbestos Claim
File a Mesothelioma Claim
First Chair
Financial Assistance Mesothelioma Patients
G – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Gross Negligence
H – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Hearing
Hearsay
I – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Insurance Claims
Interrogatory: A set of questionnaires exchanged by the parties during the discovery process.
Interrogatory
J – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Joint and Several Liability
judgment:A decision given by a judge. Usually, a judgment is based on the jury's verdict.
judgment notwithstanding the verdict( j.n.o.v .): A judge's decision to throw out the jury's verdict altogether and enter the opposite result.
Judgement Notice
Judgment Non Obstante Veredicto - JNOV
Jurisdiction
Jury Award
L – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Last Will and Testament
Lawsuit
Lead Council
Leading Question
Legal Cause
Liable - Liability
Liability Phase
Liberal construction
Living Will
Loss of Consortium
Loss of Future Earnings
Loss of Earning Capacity
Loss of Husband's Care and Comfort
Loss of Husband's Support and Companionship
Loss of Parental Care
Loss of Spousal and Parental Services
Loss of Spousal Support
Loss of Wages
M – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Malfeasance
Medical Costs
Medical Expenses
Medical Expenses Plus Interest
Medical Experts
Mesothelioma Free Consultation
Mesothelioma & Health Insurance
Mesothelioma Lawsuit
Mesothelioma Lawsuit Hearing
Mesothelioma Litigation
Mesothelioma Settlement
Mesothelioma Verdicts
Mesothelioma Wrongful Death
Mitigating Circumstances
Monetary Compensation
Motion
N – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Negligence
Negligence Per Se
Nondurable Power of Attorney
Non-Economic Damages
Nonfeasance
Non-Jury Trial
Nuncupative Will
O – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Occupational Disease
Out-of-Court Settlement
Opening Statement
P – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Past and Future Damages
Pain and Suffering
Paralegal
Peer review
Perjury
Personal Injury
Personal Representative
Petition (or Complaint)
Plaintiff:The person or company that files a law suit.
Pleading: The official set of papers that explain the facts of a particular case and lists the legal theories that justify a demand of compensation.
Product liability: A legal theory that says a product was marketed or sold as being safe but was instead harmful or defective.
Physical Evidence
Physical Impairment in the Past and Future
Plaintiff
Powers of Attorney
Preponderance of the Evidence
Prima Facie
Probate
Product Identification - Asbestos
Product Liability
Proximate Cause
Product Liability
Punitive Damages
Q – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Question of Fact
R – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Reasonable Care
recover/recovery:To get a judgment of money. The money "recovered" is called the "recovery."
Remedies
remittitur:When a judge thinks that the jury has recommended that the plaintiff should get too much money and orders that an amount be subtracted from the total.
Request for Production
Reparations for Medical Expenses
Retain:To hire a lawyer.
Retainer Fee
Reverse-Bifurcated Trial
S – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Second Chair
Settlement/settle:The agreement reached between parties to a law suit to resolve the suit without going to trial. The parties agree to "settle" the suit, usually for a particular sum of money.
Sue:To bring a legal action against a person or company.
Several Liabilities
Severance
Social Security Records
Sophisticated Employer Defense
Springing Power of Attorney
Standard of Care
Standard of Proof
Statute of Limitations
Strict Construction
Structured Settlement
Summons
Survivor Action
T – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Testifying at Trial
Trial Calendar
Tort
V – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Verdict
Victims Compensation Fund
Victims of Mesothelioma
Violating Asbestos Regulations
Voir Dire
W – Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Workers Injured by Asbestos
Workers Compensation
Work History
Wrongful death: legal theory that says a person or company is lawfully responsible for another person's death .