damage
Let an agent explain damage as a concept across property, environment, health and law, relay assessment and compensation principles from legal and insurance sources, describe kinds including collateral damage with attribution, and distinguish damage from damages and from wear.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain damage as a concept across property, environment, health and law, relay assessment and compensation principles from legal and insurance sources, describe kinds including collateral damage with attribution, and distinguish damage from damages and from wear.
Harm or injury that reduces the value, usefulness or integrity of something, whether physical damage to property, structures and land such as subsidence caused by mining or areas burned by fire, damage to living tissue, natural damage from storms and floods, or incidental harm in armed conflict known as collateral damage; damage is assessed for insurance, liability and compensation, and the word also names the monetary award in law, damages, for loss suffered.
What it is for: Not applicable; an occurrence and concept.
It can be explain the concept and kinds; relay assessment and compensation; describe collateral damage with attribution; distinguish damage from damages.
Distinguishing features
Reduction of value or integrity
Many causes
Assessment for liability
Legal and military senses
What it looks like
Not a visible object; broken, burned, flooded or injured things.
Physical character
global insured catastrophe losses: about 100-140 billion USD - per year, recent years
How it is recognised
Harm reducing value or integrity
Property, natural, tissue and mining damage; burned areas; collateral damage
Wear is gradual deterioration; damages are legal compensation; loss may occur without damage
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms, of value
is compensated by - in law
In practice
Families and kinds
property damage
natural damage from storms, floods, earthquakes and fire including burned areas
subsidence caused by mining
tissue damage in medicine
environmental damage
collateral damage in armed conflict
damages as legal compensation
Standards and regulation
Tort and contract law on liability and damages
Insurance policy definitions
Mining subsidence compensation laws
International humanitarian law on proportionality and civilian harm
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing damage with damages
Presenting contested assessments of civilian harm as settled
Underestimating hidden damage
Agents giving personal legal advice
Also called
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Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.damage
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What damage is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition and kinds.
Definition
Definition.
- What is damage, and what kinds exist from property and natural damage to tissue damage? definition
- Is the question about damage, legal damages, wear or a specific incident? boundary
Causes
Causes.
Causes
Causes.
- What causes damage, from natural hazards and mining subsidence to accidents and conflict? definition
- Which entry fits the specific cause? action
Assess Assessment and compensation.
Regulation.
Assessment
Assessment.
Assessment
Assessment.
- How is damage assessed by surveyors, engineers and insurers? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own claim, which needs an insurer or lawyer? boundary
Compensation
Compensation.
Compensation
Compensation.
- How do liability, insurance and compensation schemes such as mining subsidence funds work? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Conflict Conflict and environment.
Attribution.
Collateral
Collateral damage.
Collateral
Collateral.
- What does collateral damage mean in international humanitarian law, and how is civilian harm assessed, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Environment
Environmental damage.
Environment
Environment.
- How is environmental damage such as burned areas measured and remediated? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Medicine and prevention.
Context.
Tissue
Tissue damage.
Tissue
Tissue.
- What is tissue damage, and how does the body repair it, in general terms? provenance
- Which entry fits wound healing? action
Prevention
Prevention and resilience.
Prevention
Prevention.
- How do building codes, land use and disaster risk reduction limit damage? provenance
- Which entry fits disaster risk reduction? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should property damage and collateral damage be separate primary entries?
- How should legal and insurance sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming kinds and causes; should they be split off?