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The five simple steps to making a workers’ compensation claim
Every year, thousands of Australians are injured at work - in fact, in 2013-14 alone, there were 531,800 workers who reported suffering a work-related illness or injury. During this difficult and stressful time, injured workers can receive a lot of information from employers, doctors and insurers when they report their injury. For many of us, this information can be overwhelming. It can cause additional anxiety and distress, with some feeling daunted by the thought of making a claim. In this article, we’ve pulled together a simple, step-by-step process to help you understand your entitlements, how to make a workers’ compensation claim, and where to turn if things don’t go to plan. ...
Motor Vehicle Accidents – Understanding the Claims Process
If you’ve been injured in a road accident and have started to think about the avenues to compensation, you may now be wondering about the process that takes place to pursue compensation. As you’ll probably already be aware, your rights in this area are covered under legislation and insurance schemes administered by state transport accident authorities or insurers. While no two car accident claims are the same, it is possible to outline some general rules and advice that apply to the majority of cases. (If you’re still trying to get your head around the basics of road accident insurance and compensation, the article I’ve been Injured in a Road Accident – What do I do now? may be...
What is public liability?
Public liability is a term a lot of people have heard of, but not many people fully understand. And that makes sense as public liability covers such a wide variety of situations, events and circumstances it can be very difficult to define. Unlike workers’ compensation or road and vehicle accidents, which both (as their names suggest) cover reasonably specific areas of injury or illness, it’s difficult to sum up public liability from just its name. Perhaps the easiest way of defining what public liability is, in a legal sense, is to define it as the area of compensation law that covers any claims that falls outside of workers’ compensation, medical negligence and road and vehicle...