I had whiplash in car accident. Due to that I could barely walk for near two weeks and I wasn’t able to lift even a cat for long weeks after. I still suffering from some pains from time to time altough is already over 5 months from the accident…
Third party insurer offered me 1000 without seeing physiotherapist or doctor’s statement - shall I agree, or shall I try ask them for more?
Hold out your wages alone are about £1000…why didnt you see a lawyer
I have a lawyer and as far as I am understand, that for suffering only and for my loss income we will be paid separately… That’s why I am asking, as suffering can be very subjective, and as for me it’s worth milions, but no-one will pay me that, so I just need to know, how much they usualy pay for that in UK
as a general rule you should never take the first two offers and think hard about the third offer cause if you refuse the third one it more than likely a court will decide the amount.
thats what my lawyer told me as i am going through the same at the moment.
hope this helps you a bit orys.
mekong:
as a general rule you should never take the first two offers and think hard about the third offer cause if you refuse the third one it more than likely a court will decide the amount.
thats what my lawyer told me as i am going through the same at the moment.
hope this helps you a bit orys.
Thanks. For sure I won’t decide until i will recieve statements from my GP and physiotherapist, but I just wanted to know a range of money what is talked about.
orys:
I have a lawyer and as far as I am understand, that for suffering only and for my loss income we will be paid separately… That’s why I am asking, as suffering can be very subjective, and as for me it’s worth milions, but no-one will pay me that, so I just need to know, how much they usualy pay for that in UK
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Orys m8. You say that you have a lawyer. Presumably you are paying the lawyer to advise you on this case. Now, with all due respect, why pay a lawyer for advice, and then ask for advice from HGV Drivers on this site, most of whom, it is probably true to say, are not legally qualified. 
Buycrider:
Orys m8. You say that you have a lawyer. Presumably you are paying the lawyer to advise you on this case. Now, with all due respect, why pay a lawyer for advice, and then ask for advice from HGV Drivers on this site, most of whom, it is probably true to say, are not legally qualified.
Becouse my lawyer expect me to knowmany things, and I don’t know that as I am a foreigner, so I want to ask you before I will give her an answer if I can agree for that or not.
You don’t need to be graduated in law to let me know “when I had the whiplash I could not work for X weeks and I recieved Y of compensation” or “my mate had a Z paid for similar injury” and that will give me some field to compare if they are offering me good or bad deal.
my mother and my daughter were in an accident about 2 years ago.and both got whiplash.
now my mother who was not working, seen her doctor a few days after the accident, then seen the insurers doctor, then had a quick course of physio and then finally another doctor. in total it took around 4 months and she got £2500.
my daughter, who was working went straight to hospital afer the accident and was diagnosed with whiplash straight away and released after xrays etc. she missed a few days off work over a 10 week period (she only works part time).
she was also seen by three doctors belonging to the insurer and two belong to the third party insurer. then she had a long course of physio and then after 18 months they settled on £7000.
now, i was driving the car at the time and was rear ended. the other guys insurance contacted me straight away and said that they would deal with the claim but i said no and passed the details on to a no win no fee company.
in this case it was probably a wise move…
Orys,
What work was you doing at the time?
Did you go back to that work?
How long was you unable to work?
The reason i ask is simple, You have an accident which is the fault of the third party. Your doctor says stay off work for 3 months then i will re-examine you. But you can’t cope financially on statutory sick pay. So you go back to work after 1 month but still in pain, Then you’ve only lost 1 months pay.
It’s unfare, People should be paid there normal wage after an accident.
As for the wiplash itself, I was told some years ago that it can range between £2000 and £5000.
orys
Taxi driver friend of mine was rear ended recently and has just been offered 2500. Think he has turned it down. He didn,t have any time off work.
Orys, you really need to ‘screw’ as much as you can from your whiplash claim. I’ll tell you why, when you sign and accept that money, thats the end of it and if you suffer more repercushions with your back later on then tough luck you’ve been paid. I found this out to my cost many years ago when i was off work for a fortnight with my back about a year after an accident that i thought was no big deal. I’m sure the average/standard about 20 years ago was a grand (£1000)?
You should ask for more and point out that although you are actually working you have to be selective in what you can do due to your injuries. I’m suprsised you solicitor never sent you to a specialist straightaway.
That how it was in my case.
Someone parked in my boot when I was stopped for the red light. That night I borrowed car from friend and drove my girl to the airport, then went to night shift job. I had a trunk to Inverness and on the way back i started to feel strong pain and loose feeling in my legs. To tell it straight: if not a cruise control, I wouldn’t be able to come back to depot.
I barely walked back home and then I was trying to sleep, but due to pain, I can’t. So I went to hospital, they diagnosed whiplash (but did no xrays or nothing) and advised me to see my GP and told me, that I have to take at least one week off work.
My GP gave me statement to be two weeks off work, but after two weeks I still suffered pains, so I came back to see him. He wanted to give me another two weeks off, but as I had no money (as a foreigner I am not entitled to any benefits for first two years of paying taxes and NIN here) i asked him if I am able to do any work. He advised me, that I can drive, but no lifting at all is allowed. So i came to work for agencies, but there is not too much work for class 2 drivers in my condition, so I was happy if I had two shifts per week.
Accident happened 8th of february and only in april I becomed able to lift some small boxes ( I had some shifts for citylink) and aty the end of april I took first shift, which was involving some lifting (but only 5-10 kilos).
Today I have a good job, but sometimes I have to help with handballing some glass panels (weight up to 25 kilos per two guys) and I soon having a strong back pain. Off course I never was a Pudzian, but before I was delivering white goods or furniture and I needed much more to have pain like that.
As for my work: My company sacked me (that the other story, case is in ET) but then my opportunities for good work were very narrow. For example I was on interviev with WH Malcolms, as I thought that to drive tipper is nothing with heavy lifting, but they refused to get me even for driver’s assesment, as I was told, that with my spinal problems they won’t take responsibility for sending me to drive off road…
So for about three months I was doing only some odd shifts for agencies - some trunk here, some cage delivery there, some tank driving here, some multidrop forklift pallets here… But I still sufered from pain when I for example jumped off the cab…
So that’s my situation.
To be honest I wasn’t too happy with my lawyer, so I made a complain to her superior and now it’s seems that things started to move. But I still wanted to get some advise, so thanks for all opinions!
Dont take the first offer, have been through this but a long time ago
Sorry dont want to go into detail
When i got my report from the ‘specialist’ it said the guy (me!) had a subconcious subteraniall heamatobic fracture of the metatarsul fibia, with extensive swelling to the hemaroid metatarsuls and other such nonesense.I took it back and said i got someone elses report !! They said no, thats you. I said "jesus christ !!! I’m ill !! “” worse than i thought !!
the words you use to these compen people is discomfort not pain you can take tablets for pain
Purely as a guide to what you might expect by way of compensation, about 18 months ago my wife was rear-ended by another woman driver.
She visited the doctor the day after the accident (she didn’t feel too bad) and was told to come back about 3 days later. The next morning she was in a fair bit of pain (shoulders & neck area) so went back to the doctor - he said he was expecting her at some time as the effects of whiplash can be ‘delayed’.
Anyway, she only had a couple of days off work but had physio for about 3-4 months as she was still getting neck/shoulder pain in the mornings. It took about 5 months but she got £4,000 (second offer).
She does occasionally get a reoccurrence of the pain but there’s no point pursuing it as the claim is deemed to be ‘settled’. Perhaps the moral of this story is don’t be in too much of a rush to ‘settle’.
I would go for at least
25 million zlotys 
Did some one mention WHIPCASH , [zb] tossers
Recent rtc “are you injured ?” as they walked around the car
" No, but i may be tomorrow or the day after 
"
“Are you injured?”
“i don’t know but i may be in a couple of day’s i’m a phsiopherapist you know”
How about [zb] OFF thinking of WHIPCASH, my job is to keep all these POOR 
truckers moving and making a living while you think about how much cash you can screw, reminds me or ORYS “only joking”.
Think about it, were you injured, if not shut up and get on with it, if not stop trying to appease your conscience while you screw someone 
Minor language edits- Rikki
I didn;t asked “how to get as much money as possible” but “how much will be decent and honest compensation”.
I think that’s the difference.
put it down to lifes rich tapestry apart from loss of earnings if you aint lost an arm or an eye just get on with it