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Thoughts on 'whiplash' settlement offered

the_flying_pig · 2015-07-01 14:11:48

A couple of weeks ago my car was hit from behind by another driver. His large 4x4 barely sustained a scratch, whilst my humble Ford Focus was badly damaged, and since miraculously repaired [I was sure it'd be a write off]. He immediately accepted that it was all his fault, I must say that it was a spectacularly bad piece…

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Parking_Trouble Posts: 761 Forumite

8 July 2015 at 9:55PM edited 8 July 2015 at 9:58PM

Unless you are currently out of pocket financially why not wait a few years to be sure there are no long term effects and then claim?

I'd compare the compo "experts" with estate agents trying to value a house. They'll try to get the maximum amount but there are enough guidelines and historical data to put a price on it. It's not rocket science.

Just google "Injury compensation calculator" and the "experts" websites will pop up with some nifty tools to temp you into a claim.

Mr Straw described whiplash as "not so much an injury, more a profitable invention of the human imagination—undiagnosable except by third-rate doctors in the pay of the claims management companies or personal injury lawyers"

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