Compensation for pain and suffering for a cervical spine syndrome
The term cervical spine syndrome covers a variety of conditions that ultimately result in the symptom complex of sometimes severe pain in the shoulder-neck-arm region. One of many causes for a cervical spine syndrome can be a distortion of the cervical spine caused by a traffic accident (whiplash). In this case, it is sometimes possible for a person affected to obtain compensation for pain, although the process is often a long one.
The question of compensation for cervical spine syndrome after a car accident is common in orthopedic practice. The classification of the symptoms is not so easy. The next difficulty is then to relate an existing cervical spine syndrome (regardless of whether or not it can ultimately be proven) to the previous accident.
Because there are so many different causes for a cervical spine syndrome, it is often not possible to say whether the cervical spine syndrome was recently caused by whiplash or whether it may have existed for much longer and is only now being mentioned by doctors because of the hope for compensation for pain. If the existence of a cervical spine syndrome is considered certain, the amount of compensation for pain and suffering varies considerably from case to case. If the damage is considered to be only minor, an out-of-court settlement can usually be reached between the parties involved, which is also called a settlement.
The range, how much money is awarded to a person affected in the end, is enormously large and depends above all on how badly the damage has been caused and whether it will remain in the long term. For example, a simple cervical spine syndrome can be compensated with a few hundred euros, while the amount can go up to the 10,000 range if chronic complaints have occurred. Since almost every car accident is reported by the parties involved, the reimbursements are usually limited to 250 € regardless of the actual extent due to the mass of cases. Here unfortunately the “simulators” like the “cervical spine syndrome” injured are unfortunately sheared over a comb.
