[The Helvetic whiplash trauma--nightmare of the legal profession?].

An appropriate management of medicolegal problems in the context of the so-called "whiplash-injury" calls for much effort from both sides, physicians and lawyers. Communication to the latter will be enhanced by medical statements, which are fulfilling the formal as well as the substantial criterias. Incomplete and/or incorrect medical information may end up in misleading conclusions by the lawyers and cause unnecessary difficulties in settlement. One out of the latest leading cases of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, dealing with the aspect of causality, is stressed.