West Palm Beach Florida car accident letter to insurance adjuster regarding injuries call 1-800-74-TRIAL

[date]
Insurance Company
Re: Our client:
Your insured:
Your claim #:
Date of injury:
Dear Adjuster:
I am in receipt of your correspondence of [date] in which you made reference to your lack of understanding regarding low impact injuries. To that end, I am providing a list of publications regarding low impact injuries. Most of these articles have been written by the Society for Automotive Engineering (SAE) and others by various professors who have conducted extensive research regarding these injuries. Among these and other respected groups, it is well known that despite the low velocity of these types of impacts they are capable of causing significant injuries. The articles that you may review to enlighten you as to the dynamics of low impact injuries are as follows:
1. SAE Technical Paper Series #921573. “Dynamics of Low Speed Crash Tests With Energy Absorbing Bumpers.” Thomas J. Szabo and Judson Welcher.
2. SAE Technical Paper Series #900542. “Whiplash in Low Speed Vehicle Collisions.” Richard I. Emori and Junji Hriguchi.
3. SAE Technical Paper Series #921574. “A Physician-Engineer’s View of Low Velocity Rearend Collisions.” Peter A. Orner.
4. SAE Technical Paper Series #930211. “Automobile Bumper Behavior in Low-Speed Impacts.” David J. King, Gunter P. Siegmund and Mark N. Bailey.
5. SAE Technical Paper Series #940916. “Characteristics of Specific Automobile Bumpers in Low-Velocity Impacts.” Gunter P. Siegmund, Mark N. Bailey, and David J. King.
6. SAE Technical Paper Series #950352. “Data and Methods for Estimating the Severity of Minor Impacts.” Mark N. Bailey, Bing C. Wong, and Jonathan M. Lawrence.
7. MacNabb, I., “Acceleration Injuries of the Cervical Spine,” JOURNAL BONE/JOINT SURGERY 46:A 1797-1799, 1964.
8. MacNabb, I., “The Whiplash Syndrome,” ORTHO. CLIN. NORTH AM., 2:1389-403, 1971.
9. Seletz, M.D., “Whiplash Injuries,” JAMA, 1953 pgs. 1750-1755.
10. Hirsch, M.D., Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, U.M.D.N.J., in ORTHOPEDIC CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA Oct. 1988.
11. Dunn, E.J. and Blazar, S. “Soft Tissue Injuries of the Lower Cervical Spine, Instructional Course Lectures” A.A.O.S. Vol. 36, pgs. 499-512 (1987).
12. Hildingson, C. and Toolanen, G., “Outcome after Soft Tissue Injury of the Cervical Spine – A Prospective Study of 93 Car Accident Victims.” ACTA OF THE SCAND, Vol. 61(4), pgs. 357-59 (1990).
13. Ryan, G.A. Garrett, J.W., “A Quantitative Scale of Impact Injury” CAL No. VJ-1 Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Inc., Cornell University, October 1968.
14. McKenzie, J.A., Ph.D. & Williams, J.F., Ph.D., JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS, “The Dynamic Behavior of the Head and the Cervical Spine During Whiplash” 1971 pp. 477-490
15. SAE Technical Paper Series #892437. Yogananandan N., Haffner M., Maiman D.J., et al. “Epidemiology and Injury Biomechanics of Motor Vehicle Related Trauma to the Human Spine.” In: Proceedings of the 334d Stapp Car Crash Conference.
16. Schutt, C.H., Johan, F.C., “Neck Injury to Women in Auto Accidents,” JAMA 206(12): 2689-2692 (1968)
17. SAE Technical Paper Series #892437. Detroit, Michigan. January 1968. McElhaney J.H., Joherty B.J., Paver J.G., et al. “Reponses of the Human Spine to Torsion.” In: Proceedings of the 33rd Stapp Car Crash Conference.
18. SAE Technical Paper Series #680080. Berton R.J. “Whiplash: Tests of the Influential Variables.” Proceedings of the Automotive Engineering Congress, Detroit, Michigan, January 1968.
19. Olsson, I., Banketorp, O., “An In-depth Study of the Neck Injuries in Rear End Collisions.” IRCOBL. September 1990, p. 269.
20. States, J.D., Korn M.W., Masengill, J.B. “The Enigma of Whiplash Injuries” In: Thirteenth Annual Conference Proceedings, Rochester, NY: American Association for Automotive Medicine, 1969, p.83-108.
All of the above articles refer to the fact that “vehicles which do not sustain damage in low speed impacts can produce correspondingly higher dynamic loadings on their occupants than those which plastically deform under the same or possibly more severe impact conditions” as is the case in _____ crash. (MacNabb, I. “Acceleration Injuries of the Cervical Spine,” JOURNAL BONE/JOINT SURGERY 46: A 1797-1799, 1964)
If you have any questions or need further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Very cordially yours,
_____________________
Attorney