injury compensation

Payment for harm

Injury compensation is money paid to someone who has been harmed, typically through accident, negligence, or workplace incident.

The term appears most often in legal and insurance contexts: She received injury compensation after the car accident, workers' injury compensation claims.

The payment aims to cover medical costs, lost wages, and pain and suffering.

Opposites
legal/financial consequence type

injury compensationpunishment

Penalty for an offense

fine · penalty · punitive damages · criminal fine · retribution

economic outcome for injured party

injury compensationfinancial ruin

Complete loss of wealth

out-of-pocket expenses · medical debt · economic devastation · denied claim · bankruptcy

response to harm

injury compensationretribution

Punishment for wrongdoing

punishment · vengeance · retaliation · negligence

Family

injury, injuries, injure, injured, injuring, injurious, injuriously, compensation, compensate

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