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Whiplash is actually a pretty complicated injury.  There can at times be no telling how long your whiplash will last for, and the amount of pain and suffering you will have from your whiplash injury can vary significantly between different people.  If anything, and I hate to break the news to anyone who has just sustained a whiplash injury, the pain and suffering is likely to get worse before it gets better.

Some symptoms of whiplash:

• Neck, back, shoulder pain or stiffness
• Headaches
• Pins and needles
• Light-headedness / headaches

Treatment:
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So – you are in a situation where you have had an accident that was not your fault, and you feel that you may have a claim for compensation; but where do you go with your claim?

You can probably guess that in the following blog I will include a lot of positives about the service we offer here at The Injury Lawyers; but apart from informing you of the positives of our firm, I wish to give you a concise guide to choosing the right law firm for you.

Go direct to a law firm…
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If you have been unfortunate enough to have been involved in an accident with an uninsured or untraced driver (i.e. the driver fled the scene without leaving their details), then you may still be entitled to claim for compensation through an organisation known as The Motor Insurers Bureau (or MIB for short).

To not be able to claim for an injury caused by a road accident that was not your fault would simply be unfair and unjust; hence why The Motor Insurers Bureau (MIB) was set up in order to deal with uninsured and untraced claims. The MIB also deal with hit and run cases under its untraced agreement.

The MIB is funded by motor insurance companies and helps around 25,000 people per year make a claim. The fact that it is funded by the insurance companies means that, ultimately, they are funded by us and our insurance premiums – the MIB have calculated this cost to be around £15 – £30 per policy a year.
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Tripping claims are one of the most common types of claim that we see here at The Injury Lawyers. If you have tripped over due to the negligence of another, and you have been injured as a result, you may have a claim for compensation.

I have listed below some of the more common types of tripping claims that we see here at The Injury Lawyers:

Tripping over on the street on defective paving or raised/unsecured manhole covers – in this instance it is likely that your claim will either be against local council, a gas or electricity company or a water board. With these types of claims it is advisable to instruct a specialist personal injury lawyer with experience in handling claims against the Council. This is because claiming against the Council can be difficult as their duty only extends to regularly inspecting and maintaining the land for which they are responsible. Therefore, if they can prove they have kept up with their inspection and maintenance policies, they can easily defend a claim.
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What is third party capture?

I realise that some of you reading this blog may have heard of this term, but many people do not know what we mean by ‘Third Party Capture’.  In short it is where a third party insurer deals directly with the victim of their insured’s negligence in order for them to come to an agreement over compensation between themselves, without an independent legal representative.  In most scenarios the injuries will have been sustained in a road traffic accident, but equally they could have occurred out of another type of accident, for instance an accident at work.

Is this a problem?
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Compensation is also called ‘damages’ and there are two heads of damages for which you can claim – these are general damages and special damages, both of which I will go on to explain below.

General Damages

General damages is compensation which you can claim for the injuries you sustained as a result of your accident. In essence, you are claiming for:
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You need not be in a manual job to do manual tasks. Manual handling tasks can be delegated to you whatever role you hold in an organisation – for example you may be a receptionist who has been asked to move heavy boxes of files, or an administrative assistant moving deliveries of office supplies. Whatever the role you have your employer has a duty to protect you from risks to your health and safety.

Employer’s Duty

The duty of employers with regard to manual handling is enshrined within the Manual Handling Operations Regulations Act 1992 (amended in 2002). Going in depth into this legislation would take up this entire blog plus some, but the main point which can be taken from it are a hierarchy of control measures which an employer should follow when delegating manual handling tasks.
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Road traffic accidents are becoming increasingly common nowadays. This is probably due to the fact that roads are becomingly more and more clogged up with drivers in a rush and not paying the necessary care and attention whilst out on the road. These accidents also seem to occur most prevalently in traffic meeting places which I have gone on to discuss below:

Roundabouts

Many people can find roundabouts difficult to navigate; especially some of the larger ones. If someone is not completely sure of where they are going and which exit to take, this can be understandable, but it is sometimes these people who cause many of the accidents on our roundabouts. Accidents tend to be most commonly caused through people realising at the last moment they are in the wrong lane and cutting across lanes and causing collisions.
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At The Injury Lawyers we recover our legal fees from the other side directly if we win your case.  If we obtain compensation for you, like we have in thousands of other personal injury cases for our numerous clients, like them, you will get to keep 100% of the compensation you are due.  So, if you are awarded £2,000 for your whiplash injury, you keep the full £2,000.  There are absolutely no reductions on your compensation made by us.

Sounds great – but there must be some kind of catch, right?

No! Even if you lose the claim, which is unlikely because we only ever take on claims we genuinely believe will be successful, we do not charge you a penny.  This is because at the beginning of your compensation claim we take out an After the Event Insurance policy which covers some of our costs should your case be unsuccessful – this way we can recoup some of our losses.  And when we win, we can recover our costs from the other side directly.  You will not have to worry about facing a hefty lawyers bill.
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Whiplash can have extremely debilitating effects. At The Injury Lawyers we treat whiplash with the utmost seriousness as we realise, from the great amount of experience we have, that whiplash has serious effects.

Causes and Symptoms…

At The Injury Lawyers we see whiplash most commonly as a result of road traffic accidents. This is because the condition is caused by a sudden jolt to the head which causes the neck to move beyond its normal range of movement.
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