Employers have a duty of care to keep you safe from injury!
If you have been injured during the course of your employment, you may be entitled to make a Workers Compensation Claim and in some instances
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If you have been injured during the course of your employment, you may be entitled to make a Workers Compensation Claim and in some instances
An workplace injury causes considerable stress to the injured worker and their family. Whilst the team at Brazel Moore Lawyers advise our clients to focus
At Brazel Moore Lawyers, we understand that being injured at work can be a stressful time and create a financial burden on an injured worker
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In the workplace many people suffer injury and sometimes in a most unusual way. When this happens that person may be entitled to compensation for
Have you been injured in the course of your employment. If you have you most likely have a right to workers compensation, and possibly also
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Were you subject to abuse as a child because there has now been an important change to the law. Previously there was a limitation period
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Section 39 of the Workers Compensation Act (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/wca1987255/s39.html) is going to start cutting off injured workers from receiving workers compensation weekly payments in 2017. Have
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