Working out the new world of workers compensation
Practitioners face a reformed workers compensation system, with tighter psychological injury rules and new legal funding and assessment processes.
Practitioners face a reformed workers compensation system, with tighter psychological injury rules and new legal funding and assessment processes.
Just as society has evolved, along with the very nature of work, so too have our workplace laws.
Moral injury is a real danger to many legal practioners and is sometimes confused with vicarious trauma, but each affects people in different ways.
Damages for psychiatric injuries arising from a breach of an employment contract are now available and policies can be incorporated into contracts.
Covid-19 has had a significant impact on the NSW workers compensation scheme and not just in claims by workers who contracted the disease.