THE EVOLUTION OF COMPENSATION FOR PHYSICAL INJURY

Abstract

The development of medical techniques has enabled a
better approach to injured areas and a better understanding of the functional disability of the injured person.
At the same time, the law has become associated with a
better definition of the damages which it tends to identify ever more precisely.
It distinguishes henceforth patrimonial and extrapatrimonial, permanent and temporary damages between the
direct and indirect victims, according to the so-called
Dintilhac nomenclature.
This non-legislative and indicative grading has been
adopted by most of the Courts and, since its creation in
2005, it tends to be completed by the emergence of new
categories of damages such as the damage due to being
“unprepared”, the damage of anxiety disorders or in the
conditions of existence after consolidation