Benefits of Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational rehabilitation refers to programs that seek to return disabled or injured individuals to their optimal physical, mental, social, vocational, and economic ability. In a legal sense, vocational rehabilitation is a workers' compensation benefit, which involves programs designed to help workers who have become physically or mentally disabled and who can no longer hold the same jobs they had prior to their disabilities.
There are many cases in which Gerard Malouf and Partners have dealt...
Insurance Claim Property Damage Why You Should Not Accept an Insurers Denial of Liability
It is common for insurers to deny liability. This is often accepted by people as something that they have no power to challenge. The fact is, however, that denial of liability is something that can be challenged in some circumstances. The first and most important thing to understand about insurance companies is that they are businesses. A denial of liability after a claim has been made is often used simply as a way of reducing the insurers costs. In this way, insurers often rely on the fact...
Modified Common Law Damages
A worker injured in NSW may have a right to sue for modified common law damages along with other entitlements under the Workers Compensation Act 1987. A modified common law claim will mean that you will be compensated for your past and future economic loss.
Amendments to the Workplace Injury Management Act 1998 and the Workers Compensation Act 1987 in November 2001 resulted in significant changes to the rights of workers to claim Common Law Damages against their employer.
In order to be able...
Public Liability Cases - Assembling Evidence & Getting Results
In public liability matters, there are fundamentally 5 areas in which evidence can be collected to ensure that a comprehensive investigation and assessment of the claim has been established.
It is imperative however, that we have the permission of our clients to seek the evidence from various institutions and treatment providers. This is facilitated by way of a signed authority from the client, including a medical authority, freedom of information authority and a Health Insurance Commission...
Understanding the Uniform Defamtion Laws
If a comment has been made that brings you into contempt, disrepute or ridicule, and injures your reputation it is likely to be defamatory and you should contact us for advice.
The relevant New South Wales legislation pursuant to which the defamation proceedings are brought is the Defamation Act 1974. Further, the common law principal is long established, in New South Wales as a general rule it is illegal, under the law of defamation to publish about a person anything which is likely to cause...
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