Not The Normal Personal Injury Blah Blah
...for the person doing the striking since by English Common Law damages for wrongful death were grossly limited. It would have been much more expensive to reimburse a brain-injured person for life. The appellate court ruled that the injury was “foreseeable” since a certain percentage of the population will have “thin skulls”. In other words, many people have greater than average susceptibility to injury. The tortfeasor (a tort is an injury) takes h...