permanent injury

permanent injury
An injury, the future effect of which as a complete or partial disability appears with reasonable certainty. 22 Am J2d Damg § 117. Within the meaning of the risk assumed by an insurer, a lasting or continuous injury. Rom v Republic Coal Co. 94 Mont 250, 22 P2d 157. An injury by pollution of well waters may be permanent in a legal sense, though not perpetual, unending, or unchangeable. Haveman v Beulow, 36 Wash 185, 217 P2d 313, 19 ALR2d 763. See permanent disability.

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