{"id":847,"date":"2024-11-05T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calljed.com\/blog\/?p=847"},"modified":"2024-11-04T13:09:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:09:06","slug":"how-to-obtain-compensation-for-emotional-distress-after-a-drowning-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calljed.com\/blog\/how-to-obtain-compensation-for-emotional-distress-after-a-drowning-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Obtain Compensation For Emotional Distress After A Drowning Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calljed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11-4-24-emotional-distress-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"11-4-24-emotional-distress-300x200\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calljed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11-4-24-emotional-distress-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calljed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11-4-24-emotional-distress-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.calljed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11-4-24-emotional-distress-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.calljed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11-4-24-emotional-distress.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Legal Definition of \u201cDrowning\u201d is More Expansive Than You Might Expect <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People often make the mistake of presuming that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calljed.com\/drowning-statistics-and-risk-factors.html\">a person who has drowned<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calljed.com\/wrongful-death.html\">a person who has passed away<\/a>. However, drowning is not always a fatal occurrence. In both medicine and law, the term \u201cdrowning\u201d is used to describe respiratory impairment caused by submersion in water or another liquid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calljed.com\/blog\/10-ways-to-keep-your-children-safe-from-the-risk-of-accidental-drowning\/\">Nonfatal drownings<\/a> can have serious repercussions. Drowning-related complications include, but are not limited to, the following:<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calljed.com\/blog\/how-to-obtain-compensation-for-emotional-distress-after-a-drowning-accident\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading How To Obtain Compensation For Emotional Distress After A Drowning Accident\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legal Definition of \u201cDrowning\u201d is More Expansive Than You Might Expect People often make the mistake of presuming that a person who has drowned is a person who has passed away. However, drowning is not always a fatal occurrence. In both medicine and law, the term \u201cdrowning\u201d is used to describe respiratory impairment caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,33,5,13,7],"tags":[37,11,44,27,46,9,10,19,20,45,38,17,42,25,43,41,47],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drowning","category-negligent-supervision","category-personal-injury","category-premises-liability","category-wrongful-death","tag-attorney","tag-buffalo","tag-compensation","tag-drowning","tag-emotional-distress","tag-injury","tag-lawyer","tag-liability","tag-mediation","tag-pain-and-suffering","tag-personal-injury","tag-physical-therapy","tag-prevention","tag-rochester","tag-safety","tag-tips","tag-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How To Obtain Compensation For Emotional Distress After A Drowning Accident &#8212; 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