Category Archives: Impairment thresholds
Your rights are at stake
You may well think the proposed changes to workers compensation and motor vehicle insurance are unlikely to affect you. Until, that is, you or someone close to you is a victim of a workplace or motor vehicle accident. Then you … Continue reading
Filed under AMA Guides, CTP Insurance, Impairment thresholds, Workers Compensation
The reality of threshold assessment
What does a 15 or 20 per cent impairment threshold look like? The real problem is what it does not look like.
About those impairment thresholds
The ACT Government is intent on stopping damages for non-economic loss (NEL) being claimed, unless: (a) the degree of permanent physical impairment, excluding any psychological injury, is more than 15%; or (b) the degree of permanent psychological or psychiatric injury … Continue reading
Injuries denied justice
Under the proposed system the kinds of injury that would be denied compensation include:
