Whiplash claims - not so minor and inexpensive

During 2005 in Great Britain a total of 271,017 road accident casualties occurred. Many of these were whiplash injuries that resulted in whiplash claims being pursued by personal injury solicitors.

There is a prejudicial assumption that whiplash is a minor personal injury and with the majority of whiplash compensation payouts being for amounts between just £750 and £2,500 it is hardly any surprise.

However, cases involving whiplash and disc lesion of the more severe type, resulting in cervical spondylosis, limited movement and permanent recurring pain can warrant 100% compensation of up to £13,750.

Further to this, those suffering the most serious neck injuries associated with incomplete paraplegia or of the kind that result in permanent spastic quadriparesis can be awarded as much as £82,000.

These compensation awards are just for the injuries themselves and when other damages such as lost earnings and medical expenses are considered they can soar in value.

This goes some way to explain one woman's whiplash claim for £500,000. A 36-year-old driver from Edinburgh is claiming this lofty amount of whiplash compensation after another car rear-ended her VW Polo while she was on her way to work in 2003.

Her main reason for such a high compensation claim is that she is still suffering serious pain and has developed a depressive disorder since the car accident four years previous.

While signed off work in 2005 she was involved in another road accident similar to the one before. It took her around one year to get back to the stage in the recovery process she was at prior to the second accident where she was beginning to ease herself back into work on a part time basis. It is now deemed unlikely that she will return to full-time employment.

Personal injury solicitors acting in defence of the woman who caused the 2003 car accident ascertain that the whiplash claim is extreme. According to The Scotsman, it has been alleged that the Edinburgh woman had recovered from the physical whiplash symptoms within four months of the accident and that instead stresses, unrelated to the accident, led her to experience a deterioration of a long-standing disorder. It has also been claimed that the accident in 2005 caused, or at least contributed to, the symptoms she experiences now.

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