PERSONAL INJURY LAW
Personal injury law seeks to help people who have been harmed due to someone else's negligence. The law expects people to adhere to certain standards of reasonable behavior and to avoid behaving in ways that endanger other people. For example, drivers are not allowed to speed. Property owners must keep their land free from hazards, and manufacturers must make sure their products are not dangerous. When a person engages in reckless, careless, dangerous, or illegal behavior and another person is injured as a result, he or she may be held legally liable.

OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS
The law holds people with certain occupations to higher or more specific standards of behavior. Doctors, nursing home workers, and manufacturers, for example, have specific responsibilities to the people with whom they work. Doctors and other medical professionals are supposed to provide care for patients; if they fail do so they may be guilty of medical malpractice (a type of personal injury). Nursing home workers are also expected to provide residents with a certain expected level of care under the law. Manufacturers are held strictly liable when their products injure consumers who use them properly.