Personal injury

Personal injury is physical or psychological harm caused to a person by someone else’s careless act, such as a road accident caused by another driver.

In Malaysia, a personal injury claim generally requires showing that another party owed you a duty of care, breached it through careless driving, and caused your injury as a result, which is the foundation of making a road accident claim. The injury can be as minor as whiplash or as serious as a permanent disability.

The word covers a wide range of harm, so what applies to your situation depends on your specific injuries and how they happened.

Even an injury that seems minor at first, such as whiplash, can still support a genuine personal injury claim if it is properly documented.