Personal Injury Claim

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Crazy_Jamie

LinasPilibaitisisbatman wrote: »

Its funny how people who suffer from whiplash always have symptons which are very hard to prove.

If I had whiplash I would be off work until it recovered, at the doctors regularly and housebound something you could prove. Funny how the majority seem to just battle on with it meaning no evidence

Ironically you would put your claim in jeopardy taking the latter approach. 'Proving' pain of any degree is inherently difficult, which is why we instruct medical experts to examine the Claimant and assess not only what they find, but what they are told. Even if the symptoms have cleared up by the time the examination happens, a medical expert can tell if a person reports past symptoms that aren't consistent with a whiplash injury. So actually it's pretty easy to accurately assess whether or not somebody is lying or telling the truth with a whiplash injury, and the only people who can realistically con a medical expert are those who are medically trained themselves. Oddly enough people making frivolous claims with that level of knowledge are few and far between.

Quentin

dacouch wrote: »

LinasPilibaitisisbatman write a letter to this address, it will actually be read by people who share the same opinion as you and are actually interested in what you say...

Slight whiff of hypocrisy here.

You have a personal go at Linas on the same day you butted in to support your soulmate LadyIndecisive who was embroiled in a spat with this pearl:

dacouch wrote:

Lets all chillax and get on with helping MSE members rather than sniping at each other

lisyloo

You have a personal go at Linas on the same day you butted in to support your soulmate LadyIndecisive who was embroiled in a spat with this pearl

Can all of you give the sniping a rest please and get back to helping the people here.

I have no reason to dis-believe the OP.
But if they are making it up then surely we can rely on the trained medical professionals to sort that out.
I'm sure the insurer that's paying will have something to say about it.

Seems to me that the OP is going to lose out through no fault of their own because of a lack of proof, so I think they deserve sympathy and not unfounded allegations.
All the indications are that they will only get 50% of what they claim, so they are probably the "loser" in all of this.
Nobody wants their kids to be in an accident let alone hurt in order to get money.

Bubleicious

How ridiculous that you seem to have judged me based on the little information you have read here! Whiplash and muscle spasms was the diagnosis made by a doctor, who I do see regularly.

And being off work until the injury healed is just not an option for the majority of people I would imagine. I have a family to support and cannot afford to be off work for 8 months. To say you would be housebound is just plain daft!

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LinasPilibaitisisbatman wrote: »

and of course all this will be backed up with medical evidence beyond what you say.

Its funny how people who suffer from whiplash always have symptons which are very hard to prove.

If I had whiplash I would be off work until it recovered, at the doctors regularly and housebound something you could prove. Funny how the majority seem to just battle on with it meaning no evidence

Its about time the insurance companies thought back against the whiplash claims and dregs

Quentin

lisyloo wrote: »

Can all of you give the sniping a rest please and get back to helping the people here......

Wouldn't you say dacouch sarcastically telling a poster here to put their points to a daily paper where:

it will actually be read by people who share the same opinion as you and are actually interested in what you say...

amounts to a little more than "sniping"?

We all are entitled to post, and definitely entitled to have opinions that differ from each other which doesn't warrant such an attack - especially from someone who supposedly has no time for such personal attacks!

LadyIndecisive

Crazy_Jamie wrote: »

the only people who can realistically con a medical expert are those who are medically trained themselves.

I would disagree on this I'm afraid, I have seen literally hundreds of medical reports (confirming whiplash injuries) on individuals involved in staged accidents. These claimants are not medically trained, but they are well versed in what their symptoms need to be.

As per Lisyloo though, I have no reason to not believe the OP in this instance obviously.

Crazy_Jamie

LadyIndecisive wrote: »

I would disagree on this I'm afraid, I have seen literally hundreds of medical reports (confirming whiplash injuries) on individuals involved in staged accidents. These claimants are not medically trained, but they are well versed in what their symptoms need to be.

I was talking about those who exaggerate symptoms rather than go for full on fraud, but I suppose that's what I get for talking in absolutes. Yes, there are those people who are 'coached' into what their symptoms need to be. There are also Claimant-friendly expert witnesses who will happily overlook small discrepancies. All products of our less than perfect world, but nonetheless still in the mintority on all counts. So yes, it is possible for a non medically trained claimant to con an expert, though such instances are generally (not making that mistake twice) with lesser injuries on the scale, and for everyone that does manage to pull it off there are many more who attempt to exaggerate their symptoms or make up injuries and don't get away with it. Though out of interest, I assume that seen as you know these accidents were staged ultimately the claims did not succeed? Unless you were the one doing the coaching

LadyIndecisive

I see unsuccessful and successful ones, the latter usually being tied in by links to the open, unpaid claims.

And, no I am not the coach!

Out of interest though, how many injury claims are just the minor, soft tissue ones - many I would assume?

Crazy_Jamie

LadyIndecisive wrote: »

Out of interest though, how many injury claims are just the minor, soft tissue ones - many I would assume?

You assume correct. The number of serious, complicated injuries of all descriptions is far outweighed by the number of minor, soft tissue injuries. Which makes sense, because the number of minor accidents that happen in the world in general far outweighs the number of serious accidents. Courts up and down the land are packed everyday with disposal hearings in personal injury cases, and child settlement hearings dealing with minor injuries to children (because you need the court's approval for a settlement to be valid where a child is injured). The figure is much like a pyramid; the more serious the case is, the fewer cases of that type there are.