Here’s a question sent in to us via this website. Regarding your article 'How Nervous Shock Claims depend on whether you are a Primary or Secondary Victim' posted on 9th Dec 2016, I'm curious to know whether the mother of an adopted daughter can be regarded as a secondary victim? That article explained how Nervous Shock is not a medical term but instead one used by lawyers to describe a range of psychiatric conditions that can follow from an accident. Primary victims are people who are injured by being directly involved in the accident circumstances. Secondary victims are people who witnessed what happened to those directly involved in the accident but were not themselves “part of the action”. Claimants in the category of secondary victim suffer psychiatric injury because of fear for the safety of another. In general terms, it’s much easier to succeed with a Nervous Shock claim if you are a primary victim than if you are a secondary victim. For fear that an avalanche of Continue Reading
How Nervous Shock Claims depend on whether you are a Primary or Secondary Victim
Primary colours are colours in their own right. They cannot be created through the mixing of other colours. The 3 primary colours are red, yellow and blue. If you mix primary colours together, you get secondary colours. Combining them in pairs gives you green, purple and orange. You can view the primary colours as sitting in the middle and forming the root of the colour system, with all other colours further out, like ripples on a pond spreading out from the centre. Primary colours are the most important and secondary colours are subsidiary. “Primary” and “Secondary” are terms used by lawyers to describe victims in relation to compensation claims for nervous shock. The same sort of explanation for the difference between them works here too. In terms of space and time, primary victims will have played a more significant role in the “events” than secondary victims. They take centre stage whereas a secondary victim is in more of a supporting role, towards the wings. The term Continue Reading