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First and foremost you must have suffered an injury to your person or property.
Second, was your injury the result of someone else's fault? It is not always necessary to
have a physical injury to bring a personal injury lawsuit, however. Suits may be based on
a variety of nonphysical losses and harms. In the intentional tort of assault, for example,
you do not need to show that a person's action caused you actual physical harm but only
that it caused an expectation that some harm would come to you. (Assault is described in
more detail later in this chapter.) You also may have an action if someone
has attacked your reputation, invaded your privacy or negligently or intentionally inflicted
emotional distress upon you.