Schrader's own country, Norway, with 4.2 million people, has an organization of 70,000 people who claim to suffer from whiplash and are claiming, or trying to claim, compensation for it. That comes to nearly two percent of the Norwegian population. Of course inertial head injuries can't be taken lightly. The first thing new parents learn is to support their baby's oversized head. Parents have killed young children by simply shaking them in anger.
Whiplash is real enough.
Yet over half of American auto injury claims report back and neck sprains. Before we get to the merely dubious claims, the National Insurance Crime Bureau estimates that a sixth of those are patently fraudulent. They alone cost you and me a hundred dollars a year on each car we insure. In the end, Schrader published the findings. The Lancet , Vol.