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Emma Reilly, well said. The ostriches of the claimant lobby are the authors of their own misfortune. As one of the other commentators alluded to, people get on with their lives day in day out with sore necks, backs, and far worse. Whiplash should not be a compensatable injury unless it is debilitating. Its also amusing (but not surprising) how as soon as the plans to curtail whippy were muted all of a sudden medical reprorts started referring to injuries to the knee, ankle, arms and legs with much more frequency (without of course describing the mechanism of injury). Claimant solicitors take insurers for idiots. And it stops now. By the way, re Birkenhead everybody in the sector will be able to tell you a story about an utterly ludicrous decison from a DJ there (I remember coming across a case where the claimant's own boss told the Court his employee was lying about the time he claimed he was off work, and how he was boasting about taking the other driver to the cleaners when he was fine, and the judge still allowed the claim)