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Whiplash injuries can cause people much distress, pain and an inconvenience. Here at The Injury Lawyers we know all too well about the terrible effect whiplash has on our clients. The injury does not only affect your health, but it can also affect any aspect of your life which can sometimes cause great difficulties. If you have suffered or are suffering from whiplash, I am sure you know exactly what I am talking about.
Whiplash is often only associated with neck pain, but it also can affect your shoulders and back, and sometimes may cause discomfort to your arms or the rest of your body. Whiplash injuries can include stiffness, pain and loss of movement. It can also cause headaches, muscle spasms, and sometimes the pain can run down through the shoulders and arms which causes a lot of stress and hassle.
Whiplash is caused by a sudden movement of the body backwards, forwards or sideways. This rapid movement damages the ligaments and tendons in the neck, shoulder and back areas which causes the severe pain and immobility. For example, when you have been involved in a road traffic accident and you were correctly proceeding in your vehicle, a sudden impact from a negligent vehicle colliding into your vehicle will cause you to jolt forwards, backwards or sideways as your seatbelt will stop you from continuing forward; therefore causing you to sustain whiplash injuries.
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Whiplash Compensation Calculator
If you have a quick look on this blog you will see The Injury Lawyers’ very own whiplash compensation calculator, which does exactly what is says on the tin – it instantly values your claim.
To find out how much your whiplash injury claim could be worth, all you have to do is click on the body part which you have injured, select your injury, and answer three dead easy questions about your accident, and you will be provided with an instant claim valuation.
So, if you have whiplash, then you would select the neck injury image, choose the severity and answer the three questions to get your valuation.
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Driving can often be stressful – and these days most people use the convenience of their own vehicle to travel around. With lots of stressed and tired road users, this can cause lots of problems on the roads; one negligent action can cause serious problems and worst of all injure an innocent victim.
Here at The injury Lawyers we know all too well about the effects of negligent drivers as we help countless innocent victims get the maximum compensation that they deserve after being in road accidents.
Some of the most common road traffic accidents occur on roundabouts. Roundabouts can often seem manic and stressful anyway – Well, for me they are anyway! You sometimes can never tell who has right of way, when someone is actually going to go for it and pull out, or if someone is going to slow down and stop! Anyone can get caught up in a road traffic accident on a roundabout and innocent victims should not suffer in silence; here at The Injury Lawyers we are here to help you, in any way possible, with your vehicle damages or hire car needs, private medical treatment to help you to get back on your feet again, and most important of all, getting you the maximum compensation that you deserve.
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Whiplash claiming is dead easy – especially if you have an expert injury lawyer on your side. If you have been injured and you are suffering from whiplash, in accident that wasn’t your fault, you probably have a successful claim for compensation. What’s better, you could be compensated fast!
Before April 2010, getting hold of the compensation you deserved for your whiplash injury could have taken longer than you wanted – but now, thanks to a new system we have in place, you can get compensation in just a few short weeks or months. Let me explain how…
If you had been suffering from whiplash from a car crash a couple of years ago, getting compensation could have taken a year or more. This was because the insurers for the person who caused your whiplash were allowed a period of almost four months to simply admit that the accident was their fault (this was a stator investigation period length they had), and then after this it could take several more months to get medical evidence and settle your claim.
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If you have been a in a road traffic accident that was not your fault, and suffered injuries as a result of that accident, you are entitled to claim for compensation, and you should always get the maximum amount of money that you deserve. Here at The Injury Lawyers, our aim is to do exactly that; and more.
So, what sort of injuries do people get if they are involved in a road traffic accident? Whiplash is the most common type of injury, and one of the most frequent types of injury we see here at The Injury Lawyers. It can affect anyone – men, women and children. But what exactly is whiplash? What are the symptoms of whiplash? How can you recover from whiplash? Is there any treatment or medication to help your recovery? As we are experts in whiplash personal injury claims, we are here to help you. Here is a quick guide to the ins and outs of whiplash:
What is whiplash?
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How Much Compensation Will I Get?
‘How much compensation will I get?’ This is a phrase that is known all too well here at The Injury Lawyers. And so it should be; it is important to determine a rough amount of how much compensation you are likely to receive. After all, you deserve the compensation and are entitled to it as you have sustained injuries in an accident that was not your fault. But often it can be difficult to determine how much your claim is worth from the outset. Calculating how much compensation you are entitled to involves a number of different factors.
So, how do we determine the amount of compensation that you deserve?
The law is clear – if you have sustained injuries because of a negligent third party you are entitled to compensation in order to put you back in the position you would have been if the accident had not occurred. You can receive compensation for not only your injuries but also for any other losses you have incurred directly as a result of the accident and your injuries – placing you back in the position you would have been in financially.
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Whiplash is the most common type of road traffic accident injury. That’s why we here at The Injury Lawyers are specialists in whiplash injury claims.
Not only are we experts in obtaining you the maximum amount of compensation, but we understand the importance of getting you feeling fit and healthy again as quickly as possible. We appreciate that everyone has busy lives and we can’t afford to be unwell – that’s why we take your whiplash recovery very seriously.
Often after your road accident you will start to feel the effects of your injuries maybe 6 – 12 hours after your accident; however, this can vary. Some symptoms may include neck, back and shoulder pain, stiffness and aches, headaches, dizziness, a shooting pins and needles sensation down your arms, jaw pains, or even fatigue. Upon feeling these symptoms of whiplash, you should visit your GP who should help you out with some medical advice. They will often advise you to take pain killers and recommend that you may benefit from a course of specialist treatment, such as physiotherapy.
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As we are all manically dashing around trying to finish off our Christmas shopping, we sometimes can forget about where we are walking – I’m not talking about carelessly bumping into people in a mad rush to get the last item on the shelf; I’m talking about not watching what we are walking on. As winter brings the wet and cold weather, it can cause the floor to become a lot more dangerous than we anticipate, and can sometimes cause some people serious injuries in the event of accidents.
Slipping due to the floor being wet is one of the most common claims for compensation we see here at The Injury Lawyers.
We advise and assist numerous clients and aim to get the maximum compensation that they deserve. After all, slipping due to the negligence of whoever is responsible for the premises you are is not your fault. Failing to maintain the floor to a safe standard is not something you can control, and you should be compensated for any injuries you end up with.
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Passenger in a car accident – Maximum compensation advice!
Being a passenger in a road traffic accident means one simple thing – you are likely to have strong prospects of a successful claim for compensation.
You have been injured as a result of another person’s negligent driving and not as a result of your own; therefore we aim to get you the best compensation possible for your injuries. It doesn’t matter if you have been a passenger in the vehicle which is at fault if they collided into another vehicle; the fact that you were a passenger and you have sustained injuries as a result of the accident proves to be a winning claim.
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At The Injury Lawyers we only deal with personal injury law; as such we have become experts in our field having dedicated all our time and attention to personal injury claims. One of the most common accident types are road traffic accidents. This is hardly surprising giving the number of cars on our roads and given that there is always going to be human error in play. Fortunately, in a lot of road traffic accidents, people are able to get out injury free; but where they have been injured, if the accident was not their fault, they could obtain compensation for these injuries. In this blog I am going to focus on rear end shunt road traffic accidents.
Rear end shunts are one of the most frequent road traffic accidents. This is where a vehicle collides with the back of your vehicle and shunts you forward. For example, you may be stationary at a set of traffic lights and a negligent third party driver fails to heed the presence of your vehicle and slow down in time, and instead goes in to the back of your vehicle. Alternatively, a rear end shunt accident may occur where the vehicle behind you is stationary too but a vehicle collides with the rear of that vehicle and shunts it into your vehicle and causes you injury; this is called a concertina collision.
A typical injury arising from a rear end shunt accident is whiplash. This is a soft tissue injury that occurs when your neck is suddenly and forcefully jerked out of position. If someone collides with the rear of your vehicle, you will likely be jolted forward and your seatbelt will kick in, bringing you back. This sudden jerking movement is what will cause you your whiplash injury.
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