Injury Threshold

“Threshold” refers to the degree of force exerted upon the body during the vehicular impact that is required to produce different types of injuries categorized as; “Injury Severity Types” or “Trauma Lines”.  The predominant thinking among Insurance companies is that different forces are in action during a collision that produce different “Injury Severity Types” and “Trauma Lines” that are caused by threshold factors related to the: 

• Direction and degree of force
• Degree of acceleration and deceleration
• Degree of angular motion, translation and rotational forces
• Position and posture of head and neck
• Seat construction

Injuries are further ranked by AMA resulting from the G-forces that are in action. This results in “Specific Disorders of the Spine” and produces different “Injury Severity Types”. The Audit will help to determine when these injuries have been overlooked and add them into the new demand for settlement valuation.

See the section on “Injury Severity Types”