Injury assessed at 0% Impairment by WorkCover? Here’s why it might not matter

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

Don’t let WorkCover close your claim without getting a ‘Notice of Assessment’

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