Welcome to Roche Legal's Knowledge Base: Your resource for plain-language guides, free tools, case reviews, and practical information on personal injury law in Queensland. Whether you have been injured in a road accident, workplace incident, or public place, our articles are written to help you understand your rights and the claims process under Queensland law.
Topics covered include motor vehicle accidents, WorkCover claims, public liability, and total and permanent disability. For a full overview of your entitlements, explore our personal injury law guide.
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If you’ve slipped over at a supermarket or shopping centre and sustained a personal injury, your ability to be successful in claiming compensation under public liability insurance can depend on one single element: when did the spillage occur? In Queensland, the standard for cleaning rotations of publicly used spaces (such as shopping centres) is 15-20 … Read more
Contesting a will (or challenging the administration of an estate if there was no will) can be a delicate and complex matter to resolve. The courts are quite wary and careful about interfering with the wishes of a deceased person. However, there are situations when contesting a last will is absolutely necessary, especially when a … Read more
Victims of accidents can often feel that despite their injuries, they aren’t entitled or able to make a claim for compensation. Or, if they did make a claim, they would be on the losing end of a case that seems virtually unwinnable. However, when it comes to taking legal action for personal injuries, many people … Read more
If you’ve been injured in a workplace accident, chances are you have made a workers compensation claim through WorkCover, Queensland’s largest workplace injury insurer. At the end your rehabilitation, the claim is usually closed by WorkCover sending you to a doctor for an independent medical examination (IME) and then issuing you with a Notice of … Read more
If you are tasked with being the Executor or Administrator of the estate of a lost loved one who left this world too soon, you know that whilst still grieving you must act in an administrative role to close out their affairs. After organising the funeral, the next step is to ascertain the lost loved … Read more
If you are reading this, the crash has already happened. So this is not a page about hazard triangles and first aid. It is about the legal steps that decide whether you are compensated for your injuries in Queensland, and the ones people most often get wrong without realising it. Queensland runs a compulsory third … Read more
For some people, receiving weekly payments from WorkCover Queensland following a workplace injury is enough to tide them over until they have fully recovered and returned to work. In this case, WorkCover will stop paying the weekly benefit and close the claim – balance is restored – everybody is happy. But what if despite returning … Read more
For more than a decade now, one theme has kept recurring in the world of financial markets and wealth accumulation: the rise of Bitcoin and crypto currency. Generation Y are fast acquiring crypto currency such as Bitcoin as an investment for the future, with Generation X reluctantly following, both seeing huge profits over a very … Read more
New South Wales is the first state to recognise police officers who have taken their own lives due to work related psychological injuries such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on the NSW Police Wall of Remembrance following a campaign led by Ms Deborah Bryant, who was widowed when her police officer husband committed suicide. … Read more
If you have been asked to attend an IME, an Independent Medical Examination, it means your claim has reached the point where the insurer wants its own medical opinion on you. In Queensland that insurer is usually WorkCover Queensland or a self-insurer if you had a workplace accident, or a CTP insurer if you had … Read more