Salt Lake City-based companies, Black Box concept on highways
Do not pay whiplash, as in the past.
Juries awarded less money for whiplash - true or false - in those days, that a few years ago, Salt Lake City lawyer Joseph said Joyce. But with less sympathetic juries, and even whiplash “soft tissue” injuries are worth the money. Each year, thousands of people to monitor cases of false win a game of the estimated $ 21 billion of insurance companies pay each year for all types of fraudulent claims.
That is when one of the Salt Lake City area companies, Independent Witness Inc., provides a chance.
The company, co-founder of San Diego grafts Lyon and Mike Scott McClellan, has a black box for cars in the same manner as those Record, what’s happening in the plane crash. A little more than a video cassette tape, batteries of field recordings of data on low speed and low-impact car accidents, which for the majority of the estimated 6 million accidents that cause damage each year.
“Our goal is to try, bordering those of individuals, their injuries are exaggerated,” said McClellan, whose background in accident reconstruction and biomedical.
It is impossible to determine how much will be paid, because of false allegations concerning whiplash, headaches, backaches and other injuries, but the number is large enough, that insurance companies combat doubtful.
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