Distinguished from bodily injury, this term relates to injury inflicted by way of false arrest, invasion of privacy, malicious prosecution, and so on. It is written as Coverage B of the commercial general liability forms and as homeowners Coverage E.
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In law, a term used to embrace a broad range of torts that includes bodily injury, libel, slander, discrimination and similar offenses. Also, a standard insurance coverage that protect against a more limited group of torts (false arrest, detention or imprisonment, malicious prosecution, wrongful entry or eviction, and libel, slander, or defamation).
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UK: Intended by insurers to mean bodily injury embracing physical or psychiatric harm, disease or illness. A strict interpretation of personal injury includes intangibles such as injury to feelings resulting from defamation, personal data abuse and false arrest. Insurers may prefer to use the term ‘bodily injury’ in certain policies.