In Focus | Shoulder Injuries | Mahony’s Lawyers Adelaide. Shoulder injuries remain one of the most common type of injuries sustained at work. As workplace injury lawyers we are often asked whether someone is eligible for compensation on account of their...
TPD Insurance in Adelaide: What You Need to Know. Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) insurance is an insurance policy that provides financial protection to individuals who suffer a total and permanent disability due to illness or injury, and are no longer able to...
Workplace injuries can happen in any industry, and unfortunately, Australia is no exception. According to Safe Work Australia, there were 114,815 serious workers’ compensation claims made in Australia in 2018-19, and 183 workers died due to work-related...
The legal decision in Return to Work Corporation of South Australia v Summerfield [2021] SASCFC 17 (Summerfield) has led to workers compensation legislation reform after the Supreme Court held that related injuries could be combined when calculating impairment ratings...
After café worker Ms. Robinson sustained a workplace injury in 2014, she lodged a successful claim with Return to Work SA (RTWSA) for weekly income payments. However, RTWSA used another unrelated workplace injury settled out of Court in 1998 against Ms. Robinson as a...
Furniture retail employee Ms. Figallo was struck on the jawbone by a table she was carrying as she moved through a showroom door one day at work, causing significant injury to her jaw including loss of teeth. She lodged a claim for workplace injury, and this was...
