Compensation of permanent tinnitus after whiplash

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Gloomendoom wrote: »

I'm still unclear as to how any money can actually help though.

£1 or £1,000,000, it won't make a blind bit of difference.

Its compensation for pain, suffering and loss of amenities. Medical reports like these will typically point out how much the OP loved listening to music prior to the incident and how that simple pleasure has now been ruined by this driver and the injuries they've sustained.

If there have been actual financial losses (loss of earnings, medical expenses etc) these would be separate heads of claim

stator

It is true that tinitus ruins your experience of music, and many of us do love music.

If it's not gone already then I would assume it's for the rest of your life too. Any healing that's going to happen will already be done.

Your consultant sounds like a right *****. How does he know people's tinitus has ever gone away? Does he phone them up after the settlement? Just because they haven't come back to see him? There's nothing he can do so I don't see why they would go back to see him. It's more likely they just learn to live with it for the rest of their lives.

nidO

stator wrote: »

It's more likely they just learn to live with it for the rest of their lives.

Well, no. The elephant in the room is that it's more likely that a lot of people with spurious unprovable injuries after accidents are indeed faking it for the compo, and the ENT specialist is undoubtedly spot on.
Whether this accurately applies to the OP or not I wouldn't comment on, but the OP pushed their specialist for his opinion, and got it.

straighttalker

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I'm still unclear as to how any money can actually help though.

£1 or £1,000,000, it won't make a blind bit of difference.

Don't mention the b word. The OP might think he's lost another sense as part of the accident...

waamo

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I'm still unclear as to how any money can actually help though.

£1 or £1,000,000, it won't make a blind bit of difference.

From the opening post it seems his consultant disagrees with you. A good wedge of compo may cure the complaint.

BeenThroughItAll

aeroblade wrote: »

Reading previous posts you also owned thuggish cars in your younger years so I'm honestly not surprised about this whole fireworks stunt.

Yeah, because I'm a thug. Well done Darkmatter, read between the non-existent lines. We've been through this; just because you like to fantasise about 'bullying past' other drivers, doesn't mean we all do.


Think 'messing with fireworks' means shoving them through letterboxes do we?


Wrong again. I was taking them apart to find out how they worked and I was stupid. I was nine years old.


I'll just point out that I have never perpetrated a criminal act (other than, perhaps, the odd minor speeding offence), I have 0 points on my driving licence, have never taken drugs, don't drink to excess, have never been punched or thrown a punch and have never had an argument in the street. I'm not a football fan, either.


Not the archetypal 'thug' you clearly have me down as.


Darkmatter, you are a prat.

aeroblade

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Yeah, because I'm a thug. Well done Darkmatter, read between the non-existent lines. We've been through this; just because you like to fantasise about 'bullying past' other drivers, doesn't mean we all do.


Think 'messing with fireworks' means shoving them through letterboxes do we?


Wrong again. I was taking them apart to find out how they worked and I was stupid. I was nine years old.


I'll just point out that I have never perpetrated a criminal act (other than, perhaps, the odd minor speeding offence), I have 0 points on my driving licence, have never taken drugs, don't drink to excess, have never been punched or thrown a punch and have never had an argument in the street. I'm not a football fan, either.


Not the archetypal 'thug' you clearly have me down as.


Darkmatter, you are a prat.

I admit, you definitely come across as intelligent, far from a thug. But it doesn't change the fact that you owned an immature thuggish car that is the BMW M3. But if you enjoyed it then fair enough.

waamo

aeroblade wrote: »

I admit, you definitely come across as intelligent, far from a thug. But it doesn't change the fact that you owned an immature thuggish car that is the BMW M3. But if you enjoyed it then fair enough.

:eek: Uncalled for and frankly calling someone immature for owning an M3 smacks of kettles callin pots black.

straighttalker

What does an ageing Audi A3 SE say about its owner?

aeroblade

straighttalker wrote: »

What does an ageing Audi A3 SE say about its owner?

Nothing, an Audi A3 SE is just a conservative car. It isn't striking or flamboyant like the M3. And again. I re-iterate why does it seem necessary for you to mention the AGE of the car? This is a common thing on this forum. If anyone has a premium branded car people always feel the need to say that's it old or comment on the age. Do you have a chip on your shoulder for anyone who can afford to run a 'premium' brand car?