What You Need to Know About Workers’ Compensation
Workers’ compensation scheme exists to help you recover from an injury or illness due to your employment. This article explains the types of injury that can be covered by Workers’ compensation, and how to lodge a claim for rightful compensation.
What You Need to Know about CTP Claims
CTP Insurance enables the injured person to claim for their injuries and access medical and rehabilitation treatment. CTP claimants will generally seek damages including general damages, medical treatment costs, loss of income, and costs of gratuitous care provided by family and friends. CTP Insurance also protects motor vehicle owners and drivers from being personally sued if they are liable for injuring someone in a motor vehicle accident.
Guide to Making an Injury Claim
Are you injured from an accident? In Australia, you can claim for a compensation for injuries that arose out of an accident that is not your fault or partly your fault. In this article, we’ll guide you through when, how, and what you can claim for a compensation.
Injured in a Public Place? Here’s What You Must Do
If the accident occurred as a result of the negligence of the owner or manager of the site relating to the health and safety of premises, you may be able to claim compensation for the damages resulting from your injury. Owners or managers of public places are obliged to secure Public Liability Insurance with respect to their premises, and where an accident occurs on the premises, these Public Liability Insurance companies will act on behalf of the owners or managers.
[Case Summary] The peculiar case of a truck driver who sustained a bulging disc from a malfunctioning driver’s seat
Peebles v WorkCover Queensland [2020] QSC 106; Peebles v Workcover Queensland [2021] QCA 21 Facts of the Case Mr Daniel John Peebles, born on 2 February 1982, was employed by Kurtz Transport Pty Ltd in 2011 to work as a truck driver. As he commenced his employment, the truck which was allocated to Mr […]
