Category: Workers Compensation
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Changes to Workers Compensation Legislation in 2018 – Not much to help workers
The Workers Compensation Scheme has changed again, but what has really changed? Is it going to be better for workers? Or are we just moving the red tape around? Workers Compensation has long been accused of being overly complex, bureaucratic, and incomprehensible. Add to that the gradual stripping away of benefits for workers over the…
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Workers Compensation – Outside Work
Can a worker claim for Workers Compensation due to an injury outside of work? A work injury gives rise to certain types of compensation, in many situations where it doesn’t actually happen at work. A worker need only show there was enough of a connection with employment that the injury “arises out of or in…
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Workers Compensation Claim – Hearing Loss and Noisy Workplaces
We recently acted for a client, we’ll call him Carl (not his real name). Carl had worked in a number of different jobs over many years. He contacted our firm to see if he may be entitled to make a Workers Compensation Claim. Carl worked in construction near railroads and later moved onto driving buses. It…
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Workers Compensation “Reasonably Excused” – what does that mean?
We acted for Jill who was a retail assistant in a large company. A couple of things happened at work which were outside her control, which caused her to develop severe stress and anxiety. Finally, Jill visited her doctor who put her off work. Jill notified her employer that she had sustained a psychological injury,…
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Important Changes in Workers Compensation
A recent ruling on a retired railway workers knee replacement as an artificial aid has overturned the 5 year limit for ongoing medical care in New South Wales in relation to Workers Compensation claims. Since 2012 amendment to workers compensation laws in NSW have meant that the capacity of an injured worker to seek compensation…
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Workers Compensation for Injured Worker!
We acted for a client who was employed by Woolworths as an order selector or picker in a warehouse. He was required to lift and stack cartons of various weights and sizes up to shoulder height and beyond and in the course of a normal day would make those movements over 1600 times. He had…
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Important Notice of people on Workers Compensation!
Pursuant to changes to the law relating to Workers Compensation in June, 2012 approximately 6300 workers will be affected in relation to having their weekly benefits stopped. Their weekly payments of compensation which they have received for at least 260 weeks (5 years) will cease. The first group of workers will have had weekly benefits…
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Workers Compensation – Cut off from Medical Treatment?
Due to changes made to the law in 2012, an injured worker on workers compensation will only get their medical treatment expenses covered for so long – how long depends on how permanently affected the worker is by their injuries. Karen (not her real name) was devastated to find out that, after so many years…
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Is your workers compensation about to be cut off?
Section 39 is going to start cutting off injured workers from weekly payments in 2017. Have you gotten a letter from your insurer, telling you your payments of weekly compensation are going to stop later this year? You’re not the only one. Around 6500 injured workers across New South Wales are about to be affected…
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Work Injury Damages – There may be more money in it for you
Injured workers often find that workers compensation payments don’t necessarily pay the bills If you have been injured at work and have been receiving workers compensation payments, you might have noticed it is less than you hoped for. Under the current Workers Compensation Act 1987, injured workers can only receive 95% of their average weekly…