| MindBomber | 04-25-2012 12:03 AM |
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Originally Posted by Marco911
(Post 7899193)
Seriously, I have never seen so many people involved in relatively minor collisions whining about "injuries." This only seems to happen in the US and Canada. Insurance should pay your medical bills and only provide compensation for "pain and suffering" in the most egregarious cases that are based on physical evidence of trauma.
People in developing countries that get involved in similar accidents seem to go about their days just fine without claiming injuries or getting compensation.
| I couldn't agree more, it's shameful. People complain about ICBC insurance rates, but don't seem to understand that people with the "car accident lottery" approach are contributing to expense.
I was involved in a serious accident and required surgeries accompanied by two years in rehab; at any given time there were multiple people at my clinic who were very obviously using a "stiff neck" as a means to a 6-8 week paid vacation.
There were certainly people with very serious injuries at the clinic and those who clearly had legitimately "sore" bodies who required and benefited from treatment. Those people worked hard during physiotherapy exercises, because they badly wanted to get better so they could be relieved of the pain they were in. Then there was the other third of the patients, who resisted every attempt at exercise and were fiercely defensive. | 