How do you recover from a whiplash injury? What’s the best course of treatment to aid you with a faster recovery? What do you do!?

If you are currently suffering from whiplash, I have some potentially bad news for you:

• Whiplash is a much more complicated injury than most people think
• Whiplash recovery is difficult to predict; most victims’ suffering gets worse before it gets better
• Whiplash can not only cause pain and stiffness in the neck, shoulders, and back: it can also cause headaches, dizziness, pins and needles, and even sickness and vertigo in some cases.
• There is no magic cure for whiplash!

So – what can you do? You can aid your recovery by firstly seeking advice from your GP, a walk in centre, or a hospital, and you can help to speed up your recovery by getting treatment from a physiotherapist, or chiropractor, or an osteopathic expert if your symptoms warrant their intervention.
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Recently, I have heard some fairly worrying stories from client’s who have been shopping around for Law firms to instruct for their personal injury claims. These stories have included:

‘‘x’ law firm have said they will take 25% of my compensation upon winning my claim’.

‘‘y’ law firm said that if it goes to court and I lose I will have to pay the court costs’.
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If you have a personal injury claim it is advisable to bring the claim with a law firm using the no win no fee system. By doing it this way, it means that there is less risk to you in having to pay your solicitors costs, which can run into thousands of pounds.

In saying this, you must read the no win no fee agreement through fully, as many law firms still place a large onus on the clients to pay their costs in certain situations.

At The Injury Lawyers, win or lose a claim, we  do not charge our costs – i.e. the time we have spent on a case, to our clients, which is reflected in our genuine no win no fee agreement.
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This is a common question I hear when advising accident victims about their road accident claims whilst I’m setting them up on our systems and getting their claims rolling forward from day 1. It’s quite easy, with a good law firm that takes client care seriously, to get your whiplash claim up and running in a matter of hours; but, it’s a difficult to question to answer when asked how much compensation you are entitled to get for a whiplash injury!

Realistically, there is only one way to value a whiplash compensation claim: with an independent expert personal injury lawyer, and an independent medical report from a fully qualified medico-legal expert. Basically, you attend an appointment arranged through your lawyers, and they use the evidence given by the expert to value your claim and assess any further treatment needs you might have.

I can, however, give you guidance as to how much compensation you can receive for a whiplash claim. As well as the medical evidence, your lawyers will use their wealth of experience and knowledge, previous cases with similar injuries and circumstances, and what’s known as the JSB (Judicial Studies Board) Guidelines, in order to give you the best valuation possible.
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At The Injury Lawyers, we pride ourselves for being highly experienced in dealing with whiplash claims.  It is this experience that allows us to say to our clients that we strive to get them the best possible amount of compensation for their whiplash claim. But how much compensation are you likely to receive for a successful whiplash claim?
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It is a little known fact that not only can you claim for compensation for your injuries, but that you can also claim for any financial losses you have suffered as a result of the accident. The reason for this is that compensation is meant to put you back in the position you would have been in had the accident not have taken place – therefore recouping your losses is an important part of claiming for compensation.

Your solicitor should advise you from the outset of your claim regarding your potential claims for losses so you are aware to document any ongoing losses, and retain any receipts and other evidence in support of them.

Once your losses are collated, your solicitor will then draft a document known as a Schedule of Loss which lists your losses for the other side to consider. This Schedule of Loss will not contain the compensation claimed for your injuries, as this is dealt with as a separate item; however, when your claim is settled, this may be paid in one global amount – i.e. injury compensation and your losses together.
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Many clients upon approaching The Injury Lawyers tend to ask what their claim may be worth. This can be a difficult question to answer at the early stages of a claim, due to reasons I will discuss later in this blog. We are, however, able to give approximate figures which we feel your claim may centre around – these are approximate, as in order to accurately assess a claim, we would use a medical report:

A medical report: Once liability has been admitted on your claim, a solicitor would send you to be medically examined. This can take place at a time  and location convenient for you. After the examination, the medical professional would compile a report not only detailing your injuries and when they predict that these injuries will resolve, but also detailing the effects the accident has had on all areas of your life. This is why at The Injury Lawyers we advise our clients prior to their examination to ensure they inform the medic of all the relevant effects as fully and as accurately as possible. The medical report then provides a basis for which your claim can be valued.

JSB Guidelines: Another tool at the disposal of a specialist personal injury solicitor is that of the Judicial Studies Board Guidelines. These set whiplash injuries into bands in order to value them. I have set out these bands below:

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At The Injury Lawyers, we know that road traffic accidents occur all the time.  As expert injury lawyers, we deal with road accident claims on a daily basis.  Our experience also tells us that if you have been involved in a road traffic accident and you have ended up being injured through no fault of your own, it is highly likely that you are due compensation for your injuries.  The aim of this blog is to give you a quick guide as to how to go about making a claim arising out of a road traffic accident.

A new protocol for low value personal injury claims for road accidents has made making a claim for compensation much easier, and much more streamlined.

Under previous rules, the negligent driver’s insurer were allowed a period of around 4 months in which to investigate your claim, and further to an admission of liability, it could still take a matter of months before you received your compensation.  Under the new protocol, your claim is submitted via an online portal.  The other side now only have 1 day in which to acknowledge receipt of your claim form, and then are allowed a further 15 working days in which to come back with their position on liability.  Once liability has been admitted for your accident you will be medically examined, and your injury lawyer will put together all details of any losses arising from your accident and submit these, along with your medical report, to the other side.  Once this is done, your injury lawyers will negotiate the best settlement for you.
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There is only one true way you can calculate how much a claim for compensation:

• With an independent specialist personal injury lawyer; and
• An independent medical report from a fully qualified medico-legal expert

Any other way is simply guesswork, estimations, and averages. You can only be guaranteed to receive the maximum payout with the above combination.
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It seems like we hear about road accidents occurring everyday – whether it be on traffic news updates on the radio, seeing reports in the newspapers, or hearing about them on the news. It seems that the sad fact is that road traffic accidents are a constantly common occurrence.

If you have been involved in a road traffic accident that was not your fault, you may have a claim for compensation. This blog aims to illustrate the ease in which you can now bring a claim for a road traffic accident, as well as the added benefits that making a claim can bring.

How does the claims process work?
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