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Common Medical Injury Legal Terms

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• Adjudicate: To decide or settle something in a legal setting.
• Affidavit: A voluntary statement or declaration of facts that has been written down and confirmed under oath.
• Allegation: An assertion, declaration or statement that is made in a pleading by one of the parties to the action and tells what that party intends to prove.
• Answer: Written response in a civil case; in it, the defendant admits or denies the allegations contained in the plaintiff's complaint.
• Arbitration: A process for deciding a legal dispute out of court; a substitute for an ordinary trial.
• Assumption of risk: In the law of negligence, as a defense, a defendant's allegation that the injured plaintiff recognized the danger of the plaintiff's course of action but, nonetheless, willingly chose to risk such danger.

Common Medical Injury Legal Terms
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