These summaries are based on judgments published on the Supreme Court Library Queensland (SCLQ) website in 2021 for trials involving personal injury claims in the Supreme Court of Queensland. The judgments summarised are predominantly unreported, meaning they have not been selected for inclusion in an authorised law report series such as the Queensland Reports. However, … Read more
The Accident In 2019, a client of ROCHE Legal in their late 50’s was working as a disability support worker. The support worker was unfortunately injured at work when assisting an elderly resident in a well-known disability support and aged care facility take a shower. Specifically, the injury occurred when the support worker slipped in … Read more
If you have been injured at work and made a workers compensation claim, you will ultimately learn that your weekly benefits are not going to be paid forever. Eventually, the workers compensation insurer (usually Workcover Queensland) will close out your claim by sending you to an independent medical examination (or for psychiatric injuries – to … Read more
Unfortunately, around 25,000 Queenslanders get seriously injured at work each year. When you’re injured at work (or on the way to or from work), you are thrust into a different world beyond your control. To recover and return to a normal life, you have few options other than to rely on the advice from your … Read more
The difficulty of getting back on your feet after an injury is something that many people are unfortunately familiar with. While we can’t do anything about accidents that happen or injuries incurred during them, there is something you can do once they have happened to minimise the impact on your life: get medical treatment as … Read more
Working professionals, no matter what position you have or which industry you’re in, are not immune to accidents. Even if you have a nine-to-five office job and you sit at your desk all day, you can still face a workplace injury—maybe not physically, but possibly mentally and/or emotionally. No matter how careful you are within … 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
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