Loss of taste and smell claims can be made if your senses have been impaired or lost completely in an accident that was not your fault.
Problems with the senses are not trivial and can have a significant impact on your quality of life.
Because the senses of smell and taste work in similar ways, problems with or loss of one often affects the other as well. This will not only mean loss of enjoyment when eating and drinking, but could be dangerous in the event of a gas leak our food that is going off.
Loss of smell or taste can be caused by many things, such as an infection or disease in the nose or mouth, a blow to the head that damages nerves or poisoning by chemicals or toxic gases. Deafness and hearing claims.