Personal contracts

Insurance contracts are personal contracts, i.e. they depend upon trust and confidence. Consequently insurance policies are not assignable without the insurer’s agreement. However, commercial and other circumstances dictate that marine and life policies are not considered to be personal contracts.

personal digital assistant (PDA)

Palm-size or handheld computer used for keeping a calendar, maintaining an address book, transmitting electronic mail (e-mail), word processing, and spreadsheet functions. In health care settings, this equipment is used for prescription writing, digital voice dictation or recognition for note taking, and access to patients’ database.

personal health record (PHR)Life

long resource of health data maintained and owned by the individual, which may be used for collecting, tracking, and sharing important, up-to-date information. Individuals may need it to make better health care decisions and improve quality of care. A PHR may be paper based, electronically based, or web based. An electronically based PHR must conform to nationally recognized interoperability standards.

Personal injury

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.