Suggest that you wait until you have the further medical assessment before you think any further ahead. The assessment should hopefully make your position a bit clearer.

I don't think anyone, either legal, personal injury claim expert or medical could offer you an opinion, without seeing the further assessment and considering this in light of what was agreed before.

Hi there,

In December 2009 I had a car accident, I was hit twice by a Lorry on the M25. They admitted liability and I have had 2 medical assessments for the back pain and whip lash I have a result of the crash, plus physiotherapy. The injury was estimated by the medical expert to be a two year injury, and the third party made an offer based on that. However, I am still suffering with the pain more than two years on. I am curently planning to have another medical assessment for this. However the problem I have is this:

My solicitor tells me that if the medical expert deems the injury from the accident to have passed and the current back pain is due to something else, I could be offered less than I was offered before. Herein lies the problem - I have a 9 months old son, which means that from August 2010 until May 2011 I was pregnant. I am now concerned that the medical assessor may say that my back pain is partly/fully due to the pregnancy and that I would have healed by now had I not been pregnant. The pregnancy also meant that my physiotherapist was unable to give me the usual full treatment and I also worry that the third party will say that is why I did not recover and hence offer me less.

My question is - how likely is it that the medical assessor does not atribute my current pain to the accident (and to pregnancy instead), and therefore should I just accept the original offer (which still stands) instead?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you!