Whiplash Claim Payouts in Car Accidents

Britain by comparison with most other EU countries, has a good track record for road safety and one of the lowest road death rates in the EU; however hundreds of thousands of accidents still happen each year. These accidents are caused by a wide variety of circumstances including speeding, drink driving, drug abuse or simple lack of awareness and due care and attention to other road users to name just a few. There are many ways people get injured such as a pedestrian involved in a vehicle accident. a driver in a car accident or a passenger in a motor vehicle. Each and every one of these people should be able to claim against the third party who is responsible for causing the accident.

Naturally there are varying degrees of injury such as internal injury, broken bones or serious brain injury. The vast majority of road accident claims in the UK though are car accident compensation claims for soft tissue injury to the neck or spine called whiplash, which is caused by the sudden movement and jerk to the neck and spine upon impact. Whiplash injury may not last long in most suffers and be undetectable in many cases but certainly can cause considerable discomfort for the affected person.

Dangerous drivers and drivers who drive without due care and attention can cause many accidents on our roads, but at least some form of financial compensation is available to suffers of whiplash who wish to make a claim. Whilst the money will not heal your injuries it can certainly in some way in help you for the inconvenience, pain, suffering and out of pocket expenses.

In addition to the fact that whiplash injury in car accident claims account for the vast majority of claims being submitted for personal injury today, whiplash compensation claims also appear to have been on the rise since the advent of the "No Win No Fee" system in England. The "No Win No Fee" arrangement was introduced to save the claimant a paying legal costs as these are recovered form the negligent third party who is liable for the accident.

The good news is that the system has been improved further since April 2010 as a new "fast track" claims process has been introduced for road traffic accident claims to speed up your whiplash claim payouts. So claimants should get compensation much quicker due to the new law introduced by the Ministry Of Justice.