When drivers fail to follow the rules of the road, or when property owners fail to keep their premises reasonably safe, other people get hurt. When you are a victim of another person's negligence, our justice system calls that a "personal injury."
Why do we call it that? Well, if you are injured, especially in a motor vehicle accident, you will quickly learn that painful injuries seriously disrupt our lives. Like it or not, life today is lived balancing atop a mountain of multiple responsibilities, with the sense that any disruption to that balance will send us off the edge. Injuries can do just that, and they affect us both physically and emotionally.