SUMMARY

The development of medical techniques has enabled a better approach to injured areas and a better understanding of the functional disability of the injured person. At the same time, the law has become associated with a better definition of the damages which it tends to identify ever more precisely. It distinguishes henceforth patrimonial and extrapatrimonial, permanent and temporary damages between the direct and indirect victims, according to the so-called Dintilhac nomenclature. This non-legislative and indicative grading has been adopted by most of the Courts and, since its creation in 2005, it tends to be completed by the emergence of new categories of damages such as the damage due to being “unprepared”, the damage of anxiety disorders or in the conditions of existence after consolidation.

Keywords: Physical injury, Dintilhac grid, Anxiety disorder, Lack of information, Mass accidents.