Resumen

UGALDE LOBO, Juan Gerado  y  NAVARRO VILLALOBOS, Pablo. El daño corporal: reflexiones médico legales sobre la reparación del daño corporal. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2001, vol.17, n.2, pp.15-21. ISSN 2215-5287.

About 10% of the Costa rican population suffers from some kind of handicap, product of the risk that work it self produces. Since 1865, legislatures include the reparation of physical damage produced by work. In 1982, the law of laboral risk is established. This law is inspired in the widely used baremes. This article exposes the aplication of baremes in the evaluation of physical damage in different Costa Rican veredicts.

Palabras clave : Handicap; physical damage; risks of work; work security; bareme.