Showing posts with label personal injury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personal injury. Show all posts

Saturday, April 22, 2017

Whiplash - Car Accident Injury


Car accidents injuries each year. Although car injuries may differ from person to person, there are certain types of injuries that are quite common. It is important to know what these injuries are; therefore, you will have a better understanding of how this injury occurred. 
Listed below are some of the most frequent injuries caused by car accident:
  • Head and Back Injuries
  • Neck and Chest:
  • Severed Limbs 
  • Broken Bones
  • Spinal Cord Injury
When a car accident happens and there is a high rate of speed involved, you can experience serious neck damage. Whiplash differs from person to person, but with any type of whiplash, a person is likely to experience pain for a considerable amount of time.

If you live in NYC with more cars, you may experience a more severe wreck. This is especially true in New York, and this is why it is important to visit New York Car Accident Lawyer. With more cars on the road, the chances of being involved in a car wreck are increased.

In New York, to be able to recover any money for pain and suffering, you need to prove you have a serious injury as defined by New York Law. Whiplash  is a mechanism of injury, but not an injury in and of itself. To establish a serious injury, you need to have a medically determined objective injury, usually diagnosed by MRI or electrodiagnostic testing, which prevents you from doing most of your normal activities for 90 out of the first 180 days or a consequential or significant permanent limitation. Hospitals usually only do xrays, which only show the bones, not the discs or the nerves, so if you are still having pain, you should see a neurologist and have an MRI. If you don't have the medical proof of your injury, even if you filed a lawsuit, the Court would dismiss it.

A whiplash injury certainly can be serious enough to maintain a claim/lawsuit. You should consult with a personal injury attorney in order to recover your losses. Assuming that the other driver was at fault, your attorney can advise you on what types of damages are available. If you plan on retaining an attorney, you should begin to collect evidence that will help him or her prove your case. For starters, take pictures of the damage on your vehicle or any visible injuries you might have.  

Friday, January 9, 2015

Whiplash is a common injury of a car accident


Whiplash is a common injury of a car accident. Serious whiplash injuries can have a long-term impact on a person’s life, and victims of whiplash should file a personal injury claim seeking the maximum compensation for their pain and suffering.

If you been injured in a car accident, and are experiencing pain in your neck, your probably suffering from whiplash. Whiplash is a soft tissue injury to the neck that lasts from a couple of days to years depending on severity of the impact. This pain can stem from an injury to the spine.

Whiplash can effect a persons day-today life both at home and at work. Common symptoms of whiplash include neck pain and stiffness, headaches and dizziness, difficulty swallowing and chewing, shoulder pain, back pain, and injuries to the muscles and ligaments.

If you have been injured in a car accident, seeing the right type of physician will be able to diagnose and treat your whiplash pain. Often times victims of car  accidents do not think they have suffered whiplash or any other injury because symptoms may not appear for hours, even days after the accident.
The term “whiplash” is used to describe a variety of neck injuries that often occur in rear-end crashes.

Whiplash Statistics

• More than 3 million Americans are injured by a car  accident every year.
• The reported risk of injury in Low Speed Rear Impact Collisions is 35-68%.  The Japanese Auto Insurance Rating Association reports a 50% neck injury rate.
• About 10% of those injured become permanently disabled.
•“Minor” neck injuries account for up to 60% of all permanent impairment claims.
• So, for every 6 million occupants in Low Speed Rear Impact Collisions:
1. About 3 million will be injured (about the population size of South Carolina).
2. About 1.5 million will have chronic pain (about the population size of Nebraska).
3. About 300,000 of these become disabled usually due to pain (about the population size of Wyoming).
• Nearly half of all chronic neck pain in America is due to car crashes—mostly Low Speed Rear Impact Collisions.
• About 9% of all Americans suffer from chronic neck pain due to Low Speed Rear Impact Collisions.
• Children are at 2/3 the risk of adults.
Information provided by the Spine Research Institute of San Diego

Neck sprains and strains are the most frequently reported injuries in U.S. insurance claims. An estimated 66 percent of all insurance claimants under bodily injury liability coverage and 57 percent under personal injury protection coverage — two important insurance injury coverages — reported minor neck injuries.

43 and 34 percent of bodily injury liability and personal injury protection claimants, respectively, neck sprains or strains were the most serious injuries reported.

The cost of the claims in which neck pain was the most serious injury was about $8.8 billion, representing approximately 25 percent of the total dollars paid for all crash injuries combined.

Whiplash injuries can be sustained in any type of crash but occur most often in rear-end collisions. Based on National Automotive Sampling System data, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimated that there were 805,581 whiplash injuries occurring annually.

Of these injuries, NHTSA estimated that 272,464 occurred as a result of a rear impact.

4 A 1999 Institute study found that 26 percent of drivers of rear-struck vehicles reported neck injuries to their insurance company. 5

This was about the same as the 24 percent neck injury rate reported in a 1972 Institute study. 6

Estimates of neck injury rates in other studies have ranged from 7 to 37 percent, depending on whether police or motorists reported the information. 7, 8, 9


Injured in a rear end accident which has left you with pain and injury?

Contact a New York injury attorney who is intimately familiar with the procedures involved in a whiplash claim, and begin to seek the compensation you deserve today.


  • 5 Farmer, C.M.; Wells, J.K.; and Werner, J.V. 1999. Relationship of head restraint positioning to driver neck injury in rear-end crashes. Accident Analysis and Prevention 31(6):719-28.
  • 6 O'Neill, B.; Haddon, W., Jr.; Kelley, A.B.; and Sorenson, W.W. 1972. Automobile head restraints: frequency of neck injury claims in relation to the presence of head restraints. American Journal of Public Health 62(3):399-406.
  • 7 Braunstein, P.W. and Moore, J.O. 1959. The fallacy of the term 'whiplash' injury. American Journal of Surgery 97(4):522-9.
  • 8 Quinlan, K.P.; Annest, J.L.; Myers, B.; Ryan, G.; and Hill, H. 2004. Neck strains and sprains among motor vehicle occupants: United States, 2000. Accident Analysis and Prevention 36(1):21-7.
  • 9 States, J.D.; Balcerak, J.C.; Williams, J.S.; Morris, A.T.; Babcock, W.; Polvino, R.; et al. 1972. Injury frequency and head restraint effectiveness in rear-end impact accidents. SAE technical paper series 720967. Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers.

Monday, July 9, 2012



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