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Tightened rules for the “whiplash business” since 2009

By Rolf P. Steinegger

Requirements for proof of natural causality became stricter. Accident and biomechanical expert opinions could be presented as evidence.

Non-objectifiable health impairments generally did not result in long-term restricted employment disability.

Working paper "Tightened rules for the whiplash business" of 26.04.2011.
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The "whiplash business", Reply to the article: "When officials diagnose" by David Husmann, Bund of 05.03.2011, in Der Bund of 17.03.2011, 15.
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Tightened rules for "whiplash business" – strong headwind or slipstream, in HAVE 4/2010, 402 f.
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Disruption in the health industry, in BernerZeitung BZ online of 25.09.2010.
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Almost no disability pension for whiplash, in BernerZeitung BZ of 14.09.2010,
1 and 3.
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Federal Court takes on whiplash business, in BernerZeitung BZ online of 06.07.2010.
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Ulrich Meyer, Whiplash from a different angle, in Festschrift für (celebration publication in honour of) Erwin Murer, 2010, available at Verlag Stämpfli AG Bern.
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