Bump, involve insurance or not?

Hang on lets look at it another way.

Say your Girl Friend hit the back of the car and she suddenly got asked to stump up all thses costs. What comes around goes around. Has she been off work? has she been in so much agony she couldnt get out of bed?

For such a small ding I would want to get it repaired and done with.
 
matthab said:
Hang on lets look at it another way.

Say your Girl Friend hit the back of the car and she suddenly got asked to stump up all thses costs. What comes around goes around. Has she been off work? has she been in so much agony she couldnt get out of bed?

For such a small ding I would want to get it repaired and done with.
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But his girlfriend wouldn't, her insurance company would.
 
MikeHiow said:
(but when probing - every place she picks turns out to be a problem spot).
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If you do some googling you'll probably find the best places to say where it hurts, it will look less obvious than saying "OW!!!" every time she touches you anywhere. :D
 
I didn't make a noise really, she probes quite gently. There might have been the odd flinch, but I believe she does most of it by feeling the muscle.
 
MikeHiow said:
The truth will soon be known when she visits a physio. I've had plenty of people give me the "oh yeah, whiplash?" treatment since being rear ended, especially on here. However, when attending my first physio session on Monday, it turns out the accident and resulting whiplash has been responsible for a lot of issues I never even would have thought of being related to it.

Pins and needles, restricted arm movement on my right side (which I didn't even notice, if I'm honest!) and headaches being the biggest surprises, but seriously the physio knows exactly where is damaged and does a good job of alleviating via pressure points without me even telling her whether it hurts or not (but when probing - every place she picks turns out to be a problem spot).
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Hang on a minute its you isnt it..... the bloke in the advert for Accidents direct.


The truth has **** all to do with it, you can put a whiplash injury on without any problem.

To the OP what on earth are you even asking on here for, once this idea was hatched in your better halfs head you knew you were going to do it, so just crack on.
 
TheCrow said:
I thought whiplash was something that cant be diagnosed, thus the ridiculously high % of con artists that use it. I'm not doubting that the physio was about to sort out a lot of problems, but my gf has had the same and that was possibly from not having good pillow while sleeping, but tbh it can never be proved what caused it.....rambling on a bit here so ill just stop now :)
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Whiplash that cause permanent damage can certainly be diagnosed. The problem comes that many diagnoses of spinal pain or discomfort come from reported pain, rather than from identifiable physical condition.

My wife is actually disabled following whiplash in a car accident when she was a child, which has left her with a permanent, degenerative and untreatable (apart from pain relief) neck condition that impacts a great many things day to day. One of the things that annoys me about the current compensation obsession is that if you really suffer long term problems, money is no substitute for your health at all.

with regards to the OP, hand it over to your insurers, it's what you pay them for, and then make sure your GF gets her injury checked out properly.
 
Dolph said:
One of the things that annoys me about the current compensation obsession is that if you really suffer long term problems, money is no substitute for your health at all.
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But a permanent problem and money is better than a permanent problem and no money.
 
MikeHiow said:
But a permanent problem and money is better than a permanent problem and no money.
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True, but the point I was trying to make is that most people who claim compo don't suffer permanent problems, and those who are obsessed with the money almost certainly don't.

There are far too many people who complain of bad neck or bad back when there is very little wrong, it's one of the most common faked/exaggerated injuries, and it gives those who genuinely suffer much more to have to deal with because people lump them all together...
 
I must say, I've become frustrated with people that say I should fake whiplash, or think I am. I'm more glad I'm finally seeing a physio, as even the first session has helped.
 
mglover070588 said:
Whiplash has to be the biggest claim scam going.
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whilst that is true, if you do actually have whiplash it is painful and you can barely move your neck, cant look left or right or nothing.
the reason why scammers do so well with it is because you cant prove they dont have whiplash and a minor jolt can cause it :/
 
zipp0r said:
whilst that is true, if you do actually have whiplash it is painful and you can barely move your neck, cant look left or right or nothing.
the reason why scammers do so well with it is because you cant prove they dont have whiplash and a minor jolt can cause it :/
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Just like being off work on the sick due to 'depression' - It cannot really be disproved.

I am sure there are real cases of whiplash and depression, however I bet the real cases are few and far between:(.
 
MikeHiow said:
I didn't make a noise really, she probes quite gently. There might have been the odd flinch, but I believe she does most of it by feeling the muscle.
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I must say I am totally shocked that a private physio is more than happy to play along with your personal injury fun :p
 
[TW]Fox;17146697 said:
I must say I am totally shocked that a private physio is more than happy to play along with your personal injury fun :p
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I'm sure she is happy to have the business ;)
 
[TW]Fox;17146697 said:
I must say I am totally shocked that a private physio is more than happy to play along with your personal injury fun :p
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Anyone would think she was being paid by the insurance or something. :D
 
Its a ****ing industry sprung up over all this, everyones happy.

I honestly dont give a monkeys anymore, i wouldnt bother myself for a bump but i dont care who does now.
 
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