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Catastrophic car accident injury compensation claims
Catastrophic car accident injury claims in Western Australia In August 2011, the Commonwealth Government's Productivity Commission recommended that no-fault compulsory third party vehicle insurance cover be introduced to all States and Territories. Research at the...
Car accident compensation – dependency and property claims
Car accident injury compensation - who can claim? It is possible to make a road accident compensation claim with the Insurance Commission of Western Australia if: you were not at fault or only partly at fault for causing a road accident and associated injury; and you...
Car accident injury compensation claims – background
Car accident injury compensation claims - background. On 12 November 1943, the West Australian State Parliament enacted the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943 ("the Act"). This act required the owners of West Australian registered vehicles to insure for...
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 of...
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 32,392 road accidents...
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 range of...
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 taking...
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 the...
Do compensation payments impact social security benefits?
Personal injury compensation and social security Unfortunately some of us who suffer a personal injury at work, on the road or in a public place are injured so badly they are not able to return to work. Often these people rely on financial support from social security...
Welcome to the Separovic Injury Lawyers Blog
We will share interesting, informative and up to date information and resources about personal injury compensation law in Western Australia, covering the following topics:
- claiming Workers' Compensation;
- claiming Road Accident Compensation;
- claiming Workers' Compensation;
- claiming Work Accident Injury Common Law Damages arising from an unsafe workplace or a negligent act;
- claiming Public Liability Compensation;
- claiming Criminal Injury Compensation;
- developments in personal injury case law;
- coping with a personal injury and accessing medical and other services;
- legislative change and its impact on personal injury compensation; and
- useful resources to assist you in dealing with doctors, lawyers and the claims process.