Neck injury claims and specialist opinion
It is a startling fact that a survey of the UK's personal injury solicitors revealed that of all compensation claims resulting from car accidents, 85% are for neck injuries such as, and predominantly for, whiplash.
Neck injuries like whiplash have only recently started to get the press that they deserve. Usually these neck injuries are intangible, meaning they do not have outwardly visible symptoms.
Evidence that neck injuries such as whiplash are beginning to be taken more seriously can be observed in the size of a number of compensation claim payouts awarded to neck injury sufferers.
However, whiplash injury compensation claims like the recent one of a Scottish woman whose personal injury solicitor argued for an award of £500,000 are certainly the exception rather than the rule.
More commonly, a whiplash injury will receive between £750 and £13,750.
In contrast, neck injuries cover a much broader category of personal injury and are, of course, inclusive of whiplash. This means that there is a much greater disparity in amounts of compensation awarded for neck injuries.
For example, a minor neck injury may be determined to be worth as little as £1,000 while a severe, long-term, neck injury may be considered worth as much as £80,000 to £90,000. Compensation amounts for more serious and disabling neck injuries are considerably greater and are invariably paid-out in six-figure sums.
The fact that 85% of personal injury compensation resulting from car accident claims is paid out for neck injuries, with the vast majority on whiplash, clearly indicates the neck as one of the most vulnerable parts of the human body.
Neck injury specialist opinion
Specialist opinion on neck injuries goes some way to explaining why they're incidence has become such a car accident claim phenomenon.
Even not factoring in whiplash type injuries people suffer in car accidents, around half of all people will find that, sometime after they pass 50, they suffer from chronic or periodic neck pain.
This means that the neck is already, even without the sudden and severe trauma of a car accident-induced whiplash injury, often under a great deal of stress. Existing neck injuries can easily be aggravated
Also, as the neck offers a direct route to so much of the body's nervous system, it is possible that neck injuries can have a neurological component. This can impact the emotional and physical life of the sufferer in ways much more far-reaching than most people's perception of a neck injury would lead them to expect.
A recent report in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research (JVSR) even claimed that there was a significant connection between the type of neck injury suffered in a car accident and the development of neurological disorders such as Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.
The one truth neck injury specialists like to continually emphasize is that the seven vertebrae in the neck (the cervical spine) are the most important bones in the human body and any damage to them can have severe and lasting consequences.
Making a no win, no fee claim for personal injury compensation
If you have, through no fault of your own, been in an accident and suffered a neck injury, then you are probably entitled to claim compensation.
Our panel of no win, no fee solicitors contains a large number of neck injury litigation specialists.
Over the years, in partnership with YouClaim, this panel have achieved a truly outstanding success rate in resolving neck injury compensation claims.
But we do not only bring a proven track-record of success to the table. We also bring an ethical no win, no fee approach. This means that as one of our clients you will never, at any stage of your neck injury claim, have to pay a penny in costs or fees to either us or the opposing side. Win or lose, no fee it's our guarantee.
So why not investigate your right to compensation today?
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