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Edited by Problem_Polo :-/ on 27/08/2011 at 23:45

I recall a soundbite from a medical type on that recent TV docu about the compo culture, in which the chap said quite openly that there is no way of examining a supposed victim and identifying or otherwise their whiplash 'injuries'. It is simply a case of listening to whatever the person says and if they say the right things the doctor essentially has to take their word for it. This explains why whiplash accounts for the vast majority of accident injury claims. Having said that, it is of course entirely possible to suffer a genuine whiplash injury if you are involved in a heavy shunt of some kind, just far less likely if your accident happens at about 6 mph!

It is also well worth pointing out that the insurance industry itself - those same firms who complain endlessly that all these nasty injury claims are costing them all their profits - are totally complicit it the whole sorry scam, as they gladly sell on the details of their customers to the dubious 'claims management' outfits who then encourage people to remember that they were in fact injured despite having felt fine for the past three weeks since the accident. In the same documentary an insurance spokesman cheerily spelled out the fact that, basically, everyone else does it so the insurers feel that they might as well do it too, and make some cash to help recoup the cash that they are ultimately losing through the very same process.....stupid or what? My sympathy for these poor, struggling, multi-million pound organisations grows ever smaller!

Edited by Problem_Polo :-/ on 27/08/2011 at 23:50