event causing injury

event causing injury
As the expression is used in an accident insurance policy covering disability immediately following the event causing the injury, the "event" is not the injury itself but it is the accidental means by which the effect on the body-the injury-is caused. Hatch v United States Casualty Co. 197 Mass 101, 83 NE 398.

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