{"id":11377,"date":"2017-12-23T21:09:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T21:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=11377"},"modified":"2017-12-23T21:09:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T21:09:49","slug":"accidental-injury-a-bodily-injury-resulting-from-external-violent-and-unanticipated-causes-especially-caused-by-some-external-force-or-agency-operating-contrary-to-a-persons-intentions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=11377","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Injury – a bodily injury resulting from external, violent, and unanticipated causes, especially caused by some external force or agency operating contrary to a person\u2019s intentions, unexpectedly, and not according to the usual order of events"},"content":{"rendered":"

accidental injury<\/span>:<\/span>
\n<\/strong>(1800)<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> An injury resulting from external, violent, and unanticipated causes; especially, a <\/strong>bodily injury caused by some external force or agency operating contrary to a person\u2019s intentions, unexpectedly, and not according to the usual order of events. <\/strong>[1]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. An injury which occurs by accident, being undesigned and not anticipated, although it may result from a voluntary act.\u00a0 Anno: 29 ALR 691<\/span>; 39 ALR 871<\/span>; 44 ALR 372<\/span>; 56 ALR 1091<\/span>; 90 ALR 620<\/span>; 109 ALR 892<\/span>; 166 ALR 469<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

An injury\u00a0 incurred in a\u00a0 manner and by a for\u00a0 that is unforeseen, undesigned, and unexpected, 29A Am J Rev ed Ins<\/span> \u00a7 1166<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The mere apprehension that an injury such as did occur was likely to occur in some indefinite time in the future does not deprive the actual occurrence of its accidental character.\u00a0<\/strong> 58 Am J1st Workm Comp<\/span> \u00a7 196<\/span>.<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Physical injury which is unintended and unanticipated.<\/strong> [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Excerpt from William Reynolds Vance’s Handbook of the Law of Insurance <\/em><\/a>(1904):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAn accidental injury is a bodily injury caused by some external force or agency, operating contrary to the intention of the insured, unexpectedly, and not according to the usual order of events.\u00a0 The accident policy usually defines an accidental injury as one due to external, violent, and accidental causes.<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> [4]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/a><\/span><\/strong> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]:\u00a0Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong>with Pronunciations
\n<\/span><\/a><\/em>Third Edition<\/a>\u00a0by James A. Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]:\u00a0\u00a0Ballantine’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Legal Assistant Edition<\/a> <\/b><\/span><\/em>by Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Doctored<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[4]: William Reynolds Vance, Handbook of <\/em><\/a>the Law of insurance<\/em> 5 232, at 566 (1904)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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