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A driver talking on a handheld cell phone threatens everyone on the road with severe personal injuries and wrongful deaths.

The FDA’s system for approving drugs is fatally flawed. So is the process that the FDA uses to make vital information about approved drugs available to doctors.

For the purpose of this article, personal injury litigation can be broken into two general categories: negligence cases and intentional acts or “torts.”

In a civil lawsuit, the victim brings a case for money damages against the offender or a third party for causing physical or emotional injuries.

This standard of proof in a civil lawsuit is significantly easier to satisfy than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard of a criminal case.

Civil lawyers sometimes work alone or sometimes in a practice with other lawyers. Generally, civil lawyers only handle cases in the state or federal courts in which they are licensed to practice law.