Liability for Personal Injuries and Personal Injury Compensation

This thesis tries to summarize the main and substantial principles of the general civil responsibility as well as principles of personal (material and immaterial) harm. In the first part of the thesis, a reader can find the basic principles of the responsibility (the relationship based by an unlawful behavior of the party at fault). Besides the Czech legislation (the Czech Civil Code), the thesis summarize also some important points from the French and Belgian law (definition of fault, harm/injury, illegality). The following part of the thesis concerns various claims of a person who has been injured on health, i. e. claims of the injured person stipulated by Sections 444 - 449 of the Civil Code. Particularly, the author analyses and explores the Regulation No. 440/2001 Coll. which stipulated amounts of pecuniary damages in case of the personal injury