Whiplash compensation
www.access-legal.co.uk Advising you on whiplash claims. Richard Brett of Access Legal from Shoosmiths explains how our personal injury team can ...
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Average personal injury claim payout
4 Mistakes That Could Reduce Your Whiplash Injury ClaimWhiplash is by far the most common injury resulting from car accidents. Whiplash is one of the main injuries that car insurance covers. Symptoms of whiplash include pain in the neck or upper back, pain in the shoulder, and headaches. Symptoms can be noticed right away or may take days, weeks, or months to fully present themselves. Doctors rely on a patients history, neck examinations and x-rays to determine if a person has a whiplash injury.
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One explanation is that the no win, no fee system is hugely costly in terms of legitimate claims. Last year, the average personal injury payout after a road collision was £2430. Yet this was almost matched by the payment for legal costs - £2100.
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Scottish drivers pay price for English law SCOTTISH motorists could be paying over the odds for their car insurance, because of a lax English legal system which encourages fraudulent claims, it has emerged. t years, following big hikes over the past two years, according to the |
MOBILE DOCTORS GROUP PLC : UK Ministers To Discuss Whiplash Claims Practice
Ways to reduce the number of whiplash claims and to bring down car insurance prices in the UK are to be examined at a meeting of ministers, the Huffington Post reports.
The meeting follows last month's announcement of the Transport Select Committee that whiplash claims in the UK have reached levels higher than in any other European country and this has resulted in a rise in insurance premiums. One of the key recommendations that the Committee made was to increase the threshold before whiplash payouts are made.
Transport Secretary Justine Greening set the starting point of the discussion with a statement she made for the Mail on Sunday, in which she revealed that motorists have become more responsible and car accidents happen more rarely than before. Therefore, one might expect insurance premiums to come down but in fact they are soaring, contrary to common logic.
In the UK an average of 1,500 claims are made every day, which makes it "the whiplash capital of Europe", Greening wrote and expressed her firm conviction that action must be taken to change the current state of affairs.
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