claim

V. If you claim something, you try to get it because you think you have a right to it.

She intends to claim for damages against the doctor who cut off the wrong leg.

N.

She made a claim for damages, but the court found that she had been negligent, not the other driver.

A Texas jury found Andrea Yates guilty of capital murder Tuesday, rejecting her claim that she was insane when she drowned her five children in a bathtub last summer.

claimant UK

N. a person who asks for something which they believe belongs to them or which they have a right to (see plaintiff)

The claimants allege that the defendant sold them a dangerous product.