This accident is driving me crazy! Psychological injuries

Isn’t an accident a pain on the neck? Doesn’t an accident affect your life style so much that your added stress can drive you crazy? The answer is yes.

You can claim Psychological injuries for the accident, but most jurisdictions require certain things so this claim ca be successful.

First you must be physically injured to be able to make this claim. What I mean by this is that there must be some kind of physical injury on YOU (the person making the claim). If you are not injured, but your child is, you would have a very difficult time making psychological injury claim for you. Also, it is common to see people so distress because their car was hit and they have no means of transportation that they are sick. Unfortunately most jurisdictions require actual injury to be able to claim psychological injuries

Second, you must have physical evidence of the psychological injury. If you are claiming stress, fear, anxiety, etc. Then you must go a doctor and be diagnosed. Claim adjusters are reluctant to consider any payment for psychological injuries since most people can just claim them. However, if you have medical evidence showing your mental distress then you would be entitled to compensation.