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Palmer v Mantas [2022] EWHC 90 (QB)
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Palmer v Mantas [2022] EWHC 90 (QB)

byPriya Vaidya

The case: The Claimant's claim arose out of a road traffic accident. Many different symptoms manifested after the accident, which it was accepted were caused or materially contributed by it which were physical, neurological, neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric in origin and summarised as tinnitus, sound sensitivity, hearing difficulties, dizziness and migrainous headaches associated with increased sensitivity to light and sound. The parties further agreed that the Claimant was suffering from chronic pain and/or Somatic Symptom Disorder with predominant persistent pain; a generalised anxiety disorder and specific phobic anxiety; recurrent periods of clinically significant depression amounting to a major depressive episode which fluctuated depending on her other symptoms, in particular the migrainous headaches; post-traumatic stress disorder 

 

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