Car crash compensation claims – how are they assessed?

Car accident injury compensation claims – background Originally established in 1926, the West Australian State Government Insurance Office provided workers’ Separovic Personal Injury Lawyers Happy Man with Beard-mincompensation to miners in the goldfields...

Whiplash injuries and claiming car accident compensation

Whiplash injuries and car accident compensation – background The Road Safety Commission (“the Commission”) compiles and provides statistics on road accidents in Western Australia. In their last annual report the Commission noted that there were...

Employer’s cannot avoid paying workers’ compensation

Worrying trends in workers’ compensation claims Employers are required to meet many financial and legislative obligations in order to run a successful business. Prosecution results published by WorkCover WA suggest that employers are increasingly attempting a...

Proportionate liability and personal injury compensation

Background into the personal injury compensation industry In 1994, concerns regarding the cost of liability insurance coupled with growing perceptions that the law of joint and several liability was not being administered consistently, led the Commonwealth and NSW...

Injured as a pedestrian? Claim personal injury compensation

Pedestrians and road injury compensation claims While possibly sounding counter-intuitive pedestrians are the largest group of road users. Most of our daily activities – commuting to work, dropping children at school, food shopping, catching up with friends or...

Workers’ compensation claims – how are they assessed?

Once an employee has lodged a Workers’ Compensation Claim form and a First Certificate of Capacity with their employer, the employer has 5 working days to lodge these documents with their insurer. The insurer is then required to make a determination regarding...