Workplace Injuries

In this article, we will look at how personal injury compensation, for example TAC or WorkCover benefits, may affect the supports a person with a disability receives under their NDIS plan.

If you hurt yourself at work and are in receipt of WorkCover weekly compensation payments for your time off work, you have probably been asked to participate in planning for your return to work, [...]

In this article, we provide a guide for General Practitioners about the Victorian workers compensation claims process and answer some of the common questions raised by GP’s.

Understandably, many Victorians are concerned about the effect COVID-19 will have on the progress of their personal injury claim. They want to know whether it will affect their ability to get [...]

For many Victorian workers, there is heightened anxiety about returning to the workplace after weeks (or months) of working from home. Some workers may be considering what happens if you contract [...]

With the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), many of us are now working from home. This presents many difficulties; one of which might be "what happens if you injure yourself whilst working from home"?

Claiming common law damages (lump sum compensation in cases where there is negligence) for a workplace injury can be more difficult where the injury is a psychological one. The main difficulty [...]

If you were receiving WorkCover benefits before coronavirus, those benefits should continue. If you’re having difficulties with your ongoing benefits, you should seek advice from an experience [...]

In most personal injury cases, if your case is not successful (is withdrawn or investigation of a potential claim is stopped), there should be no costs for you to pay under a No Win No Fee agreement.

If you’ve suffered an injury at work and lodged a WorkCover claim, you may also be entitled to a lump sum compensation payment even if no one was at fault for your injury. This is referred to as [...]

Today’s working arrangements see people working different hours to the traditional 9 to 5 together with a significant rise in ‘remote work’ opportunities. We need to look at the impact of these [...]

If you’re injured outside the traditional employee/employer work arrangement, how do you know if you have an entitlement to claim WorkCover? There are 2 main questions to ask.