{"id":152,"date":"2008-12-08T13:24:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T12:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-12-17T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T11:38:33","slug":"whiplash-claim-worth-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2008\/12\/08\/whiplash-claim-worth-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Is My Whiplash Claim Worth Anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whiplash is caused as a result of the head being thrown back and forth beyond its normal confines, due to a sudden collision. Therefore, <strong>incurring a whiplash injury<\/strong> as a result of a <a title=\"Road traffic accident\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/road_traffic_accidents.php\">Road Traffic Accident<\/a> is extremely common. The neck becomes injured as a result of the impact felt by the accident and can result in long term suffering and injury such as; back ache, neck pain, shoulder pain, headache, dizziness, pains in your legs and arms and nausea.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-164\" title=\"whiplash-claim-worth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/whiplash-claim-worth-300x131.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With a whiplash injury, the symptoms may not become apparent immediately and can emerge some time after the event. Therefore, the <strong>value of your whiplash claim<\/strong> cannot be decided immediately after the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The worth of your <a title=\"whiplash claim\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/whiplash_claims.php\">whiplash claim<\/a> depends on the degree of the injuries you have sustained. Injuries can range from minor through to serious. In a minor case of whiplash, the symptoms will subside within a few days of the accident. However, if you have sustained a <strong>serious case of whiplash<\/strong>, the injuries can impact on your daily life massively and interfere with your ability to continue with your daily activities for a prolonged period. The seriousness of the injuries you have incurred is the deciding issue.<\/p>\n<p>To get an idea as to <strong>what your whiplash claim might be worth<\/strong>, try out the <a title=\"Whiplash claims calculator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whiplash-claims.com\">whiplash claims calculator<\/a> which gives you an approximate idea as to what your claim may be worth. The calculator is based on the Judges Guidelines but you should note that it&#8217;s a very broad approach to valuing your claim as the Judges have very wide brackets in valuing whiplash injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whiplash is caused as a result of the head being thrown back and forth beyond its normal confines, due to a sudden collision. Therefore, incurring a whiplash injury as a result of a Road Traffic Accident is extremely common. The neck becomes injured as a result of the impact felt by the accident and can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2008\/12\/08\/whiplash-claim-worth-anything\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is My Whiplash Claim Worth Anything?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-claims"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is My Whiplash Claim Worth Anything?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How do some whiplash claims pay big money yet others pay hardly anything at all. 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