JURISDICTIONAL ANALYSIS. We provide below our analysis of the insurability of punitive damages in the fifty United States and in the District of Columbia. Our analysis addresses the insurability of both directly assessed and vicariously assessed punitive damages.
Definition of 'shingle'. shingle (ÊÉªÅgÉl ) Shingle is a mass of small rough pieces of stone on the shore of a sea or a river. ...a beach of sand and shingle. Shingles is a disease in which painful red spots spread in bands over a person's body, especially around their waist. 3. countable noun. Shingles are thin pieces of wood or another material which are fixed in rows to cover a roof or wall.
Shingles is the reactivation of a viral infection in the nerves to the skin that causes pain, burning, or a tingling sensation, along with an itch and blisters in the skin supplied by the affected nerve. It is caused by the varicella zoster virus[1] , or VZVâthe same virus that causes chickenpox.erpes zoster âthe medical term for shingles; an infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus, one of the herpesviruses family of viruses. herpes simplex âthe medical term for a related but different virus that causes repeated mild blisters of the skin or mucous membrane.