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Whiplash Injuries - What You Need To Know |
If You Have Suffered a motor
accident, whiplash
injury, accident
at work, medical
negligence, faulty
goods, criminal
injury, slip
or trip, industrial
injury, accident
in a public place or would just like some advice, please don't hesitate to
give us a call on 08000 71 22 71 for any personal
injury, medical negligence, road traffic accident, no win no fee accident
claims
Over 80% of all personal injury claims made against insurers are for whiplash
injuries. They are the most common compensation claims and contrary to popular
belief, the symptoms suffered are extremely painful. In any accident, some
responsibility is always attributed to the person causing the accident. The same
holds true for most road accidents. In this light it is important to know the
ways of getting your whiplash compensation for the whiplash injuries caused as a
result of the accident.
A whiplash injury is a late reaction injury. The injury does not come to the
fore or the symptoms do not manifest themselves until much later. The whiplash
injuries are normally felt the morning after and can take the form of:
• Headache - mostly all over the head with pain points in the back of the head,
the forehead or behind the eyes
• Neck pain
• Both headache and neck pain - headache would likely be more painful and
short-lived than the neck pain. The neck pain may likely develop into
Osteoarthritis in future.
Due to the time taking nature of the symptoms to manifest themselves, a whiplash
injury compensation claim would not be easy to fight, since the causation proof
becomes difficult to establish. The following guidelines could pave your way to
an easier whiplash compensation claim.
1. Take careful and detailed notes of the accident as soon as you can get hold
of a pen and some paper. The details should include the period prior to the
accident to until after the accident. The following details would be necessary.
a. Place of the accident.
b. Weather conditions - raining, sunny, slippery, mushy etc.
c. Exact time of the accident.
d. Witnesses - names and addresses.
e. Conversations between you and other people.
f. Names and ranks of police officers if present.
Try to photograph the place, the extent of damage to the vehicles involved in
the accident, witnesses and road surface, if you have a camera at hand.
2. Have a medical examination done as soon as possible. This is important even
though you do not feel any symptoms of illness or unease. The more you delay the
more chances that your whiplash injuries have been caused by some other causes
than the accident itself (or so the person who caused the accident may argue).
The delay may also give a chance to the person who caused the accident to argue
that no medical attention was given on time to mitigate the injuries. Always get
the doctor to give you a complete report of injuries which may include the
possibility of a whiplash injury.
Whiplash injuries can be permanent and fatal. If a whiplash injury manifests
itself into Osteoarthritis, leading a normal life from thereon would be a
difficult proposition. If you have decided to claim compensation for a whiplash
injury, it is recommended to contact an expert solicitor to help you claim
rightful damages and compensation in addition to receiving valuable treatment or
physiotherapy at no cost, depending on the coverage.
If You Have Suffered a motor accident, whiplash injury, accident at work, medical negligence, faulty goods, criminal injury, slip or trip, industrial injury, accident in a public place or
would just like some advice, please don't hesitate to give us a call on 08000 71 22 71 for any personal injury, medical negligence, road traffic accident, no win no fee accident claims |
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