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Car Crash URGENT help needed!!

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  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    Of course, who is ever to know - if the claimant is well tutored, and only gets examined long after the injury has passed its acute phase, though the patient is in the throes of compensation neurosis.

    But a doctor can spot a fake during examination during the acute phase, by comparing what the patient says with what the examination shows.
  • What does the examination show that is not wholly dependent on the claimant saying 'yes i have pain when you move my head that way' or 'no that doesn't hurt'?
  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    Pain on movement is very rarely the only symptom. There are lots more.
  • neas
    neas Posts: 3,801 Forumite
    valuable lesson for him.

    Ofc his friends might've been injured a bit from his bad driving... lets face it losing control of a vehicle in rain is prob ot a valid reason.

    What was most likely happening him and the friends were going too fast... and overestimated effect of raing... they skiddied he braked... they hit ditch at 10-15 mph... but still got minor whiplash.
  • Well, if you will trust me on this, I do not see these detailed very often in the reports I see. And I have seen quite a few.
  • Don't all accidents have to be reported to insurers?
    Blackpool_Saver is female, and does not live in Blackpool

  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    Well, if you will trust me on this, I do not see these detailed very often in the reports I see. And I have seen quite a few.

    I don't have any reason not to trust you. But the medics generally doing the reports do them for the money, rather than out of any medical concern for the patient.

    This NHS site lists the symptoms:

    http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Whiplash/Pages/Symptoms.aspx
  • Most symptoms are pretty easy to fake if you know what they should be. That's my experience.

    I don't know how many staged incidents with PI you have dealt with, perhaps you have a different experience to me. Which is of course fine!
  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    Which is of course fine!

    I'm glad!

    (Why did Lisyloo post I was responsible for you being lost?) If you had a problem over our intercourse, I would have thought you could say so?

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1756143
  • You were, partially. I am busy also, crime never sleeps you know.

    But I may have forgiven you, I'm nice like that. x
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