According to the law can be distinguished various degrees of willful, or voluntary, personal injuries. Depending on its degree, a criminal will be prosecuted with or without the complaint of the victim. Regardless of the personal injury degree, however, Steven Zwick, a specialist attorney in personal injuries cases, advice you to make a complaint as soon as somebody will voluntarily harm you.
So let’s see the degrees of personal injuries.
The first degree is the slight personal injury. In this case the victim needs less than 20 days of recovery and the criminal will not be prosecuted unless the victim makes a complaint. Also, a medical report is not requested.
The second degree is the minor personal injury. The victim will need up to 40 days of medical care, and in any case more than 20. A medical report is required and the criminal will be prosecuted even if the victim doesn’t make a complaint.
The third degree, called grievous bodily harm, is considered when the victim needs more than 40 days of medical care. The same degree is considered also when the life of the victim have been threaten or the victim had a permanent weakening of a sense or an organ. A medical report is required and the criminal will be prosecuted even if the victim doesn’t make a complaint.
The fourth degree is the serious personal injury, when the harm is probably incurable or when the victim lost definitively the use of an organ, a sense, a limb or suffered any form of mutilation which renders the limbs useless.