Despite what insurance companies tell people, they are there to save money – not pay out as much as possible. I can say this with a huge degree of confidence because I see it in action everyday here at The Injury Lawyers HQ and I’ve seen some of the absolutely appalling offers insurers try and fob people off with.
If you are dealing with the insurers directly, and you are looking for some guidelines valuations, I will give you a few breakdowns later on in the blog but heed this massive warning – dealing with the insurers is not a clever way to settle your claim. Yes, you may be able to settle it quicker, but it’s highly likely you are in serious danger of under settling the claim. If I had a pound for every time people had settled directly and then come to a lawyer for help because they feel they’ve under settled, I’d be writing blogs about my worldwide travel escapades on the back of a 164ft yacht.
So what is the maximum whiplash compensation you can get? Is there an upper limit? How much is your claim worth? How much is the average whiplash compensation claim worth? This isn’t something that you can easily estimate…
The ONLY foolproof way to guarantee that you will receive the maximum whiplash compensation is to instruct a top quality injury law firm to run the case in the proper way. This means getting a medical report from a suitably qualified medico-legal expert. This vital evidence is what we will use to then value your whiplash injury and look to get you the maximum whiplash compensation.
Without medical evidence, it’s very hard to put a value on your whiplash claim. You can guess – you could say that the claim is worth £2,750 because that’s the statistical average a minor whiplash claim may settle for nowadays. You could say that the claim is worth £1,000 because that’s the lower limit for a minor whiplash injury according to official brackets. Or you could say it’s worth £5,000 because that’s at the upper limit of a minor whiplash bracket. But where you are on that bracket is really more dependent on medical evidence.
So without medical evidence, how do you know where about in the brackets your whiplash claim goes? In fact, how do know if your whiplash is a minor whiplash at all? What if its moderate, which generally means you may be eligible for a higher award? That is the point of this article – you don’t know that unless you obtain medical evidence and allow an expert injury lawyer to value the claim. Even if the insurers get you a medical report, how do you know it’s truly independent? How do you know it’s a suitable expert as oppose to a ‘cheap’ one because insurers are, after all, there to save money? Their duty is to their shareholders and maintaining their profits – not to you!
So to get the maximum whiplash compensation, call our free claims helpline on 0800 634 75 75 today.
