How to Make A Public Liability Claim? Negligence, Evidence, & Compensation
If you were injured due to someone’s negligence, you may be able to file a public liability claim. Citizens, organisation, and governments need to abide by the “duty of care” that ensures the safety of every individual in the country. Moreover, the duty of care is applicable in all public spaces – parks, footpaths, commercial […]
Plastic Surgery Fails – How To Make A Medical Negligence Claim?
Every surgery will involve certain risks. In every surgical case, the surgeons and surgical staff must possess the right level of experience and skills. However, there is still a possibility of significant surgical risks. While some cases involve unavoidable risks (where the risks would’ve been significant irrespective of the surgeon), others involve avoidable surgical risks […]
Sexually Abused Victims Compensation: How Much Can You Get?
Being sexually abused or assaulted is not an uncommon occurrence anywhere in the world, including Australia. This crime can affect both men and women, small children, young people, teenagers, and adults. It’s important to remember that, regardless of the type of sexual abuse you’ve suffered, you can get the emotional support you need from a number of of places. Survivors of sexual abuse can get […]
10 Most Common Mistakes When Filing a Personal Injury Claim
Being injured is never a pleasant experience. If you have been injured due to someone’s mistake, you have the right to seek compensation for your injury under Australian law. However, by making simple personal injury claim mistakes, you may delay the process of receiving your compensation. Here are ten common personal injury mistakes clients make: […]
How To Seek Legal Options For Institutional Abuse?
For survivors of Institutional sexual abuse, any amount of legal financial compensation may not be enough compared to the pain they have gone through. When it comes to abuse, survivors face psychological and physical injuries that may never heal properly throughout their life. Moreover, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Childhood Sexual Abuse, has explored the legal history of survivors. […]
How to Identify Different Forms of Elder Abuse?
Elder abuse identifies either single or multiple incidents, where a person of trust may harm an older person. Elder abuse can exist in various forms such as psychological (social), emotional, physical, financial, and sexual. Moreover, it can also be due to unintentional or intentional neglect. The focus of these incidents is not on the perpetrator’s intentions, but rather […]
How To Prove Nursing Home Negligence And Abuse
As the years go by, nursing homes are welcoming more and more elderly individuals yearly. However, 1 in 10 of these individuals are likely to experience nursing home negligence and abuse, where only 1 in 14 incidents is reported. Nursing home negligence and abuse can take various forms including financial, physical, verbal, or emotional abuse. […]
Things That Insurance Companies Don’t Want You To Know
The Truth! You want the truth about insurance companies. The truth about accidents, injuries, and compensation. Well here it is people, people like you work hard, you sacrifice, you help the world exist and continue to survive. You get paid and part of that payment you pay or contribute to insurance companies Motor vehicle CTP […]
What Is Your Claim Worth?
How much is your claim worth? Money received from medical negligence is typically referred to as damages. Medical Negligence is a complicated area. As previous posts have shown, starting and building your claim can often require significant technical skills from your lawyers. However, from a client perspective, the most important and potentially most ambiguous area of a […]
Things You Need To Know About The TPD Insurance Cover
What is TPD Insurance cover? When it comes to insurance, there is a myriad of covers available to the consumer. One of these includes Total and Permanent disablement (or TPD) insurance cover, a form of cover aimed towards those with the most serious of injuries. TPD insurance is commonly purchased as an optional extra with Life Insurance […]
5 Things to Know: Slip and Fall injury claims
Learn 5 things about Claiming compensation for slip injuries and fall injuries If you have slipped and fell due to another person’s action or negligence, you may be able to claim compensation for up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. With this in mind, here are 5 vital aspects of slip and fall injuries to know before making […]
How to Claim Whiplash Injury Compensation
How to Claim Whiplash Injury Compensation in Canberra? Whiplash injuries are a form of neck injury frequently sustained in car accidents. This injury consists of the body suffering harm when a person’s neck moves forwards and backwards involuntarily, often due to the sudden deceleration of a motor vehicle common to car crash incidents. What are the symptoms of a […]
Medical Negligence Lawyers – When Do You Need Them?
Medical negligence is when a doctor or medical professional causes you harm by breaching his or her duty of care. But one of the most important parts of your medical negligence cause is proving liability. Liability is a legal term that essentially means proving that it was someone’s fault that you were injured. As difficult […]
Making a Motorbike Accident Compensation Claim?
Making a Motorbike Accident Compensation Claim in Canberra? Over the years, we have run plenty of compensation cases for motorcyclists who have been injured by someone else’s carelessness on the roads. There are a few things that come up in motorbike accidents that don’t come up in car crashes, and so this blog post will discuss a […]
Can You Claim for Repetitive Strain Injury?
Repetitive strain injury occurs when muscles, tendons, and nerves are overused and are damaged as a result. This often occurs in the wrist, fingers, back, neck, legs, arms, and elbows. If this injury causes restrictions in your everyday and work life, you have reasonable prospects of success in a compensation claim for lost income, medical […]
Worker’s Compensation On the Way to Work? (ACT & NSW)
Am I eligible for worker’s compensation, if I get injured while traveling to the workplace? Injuries are not always contained to the workplace alone. It may be that you are injured during the travel between your home and place of work, or on your way to work-related training. It may be that you’re injured while […]
Injured at Work?
Can’t pay the bank because you have been injured at work? Has an accident at work meant that debt collectors are now chasing you? We often see people who have been injured at work and cannot make basic living payments. It is horrible. It is bad enough that you have been injured but add the […]
Choosing the right law firm
Choosing the right law firm We understand that choosing the right law firm can be an incredibly stressful process. When you find yourself in need of a lawyer it typically comes off the back of some horrible experience such an accident, the breakdown in a relationship, an incident involving police – all of which can […]
What is Strata Law
Strata law is all about the control, procedures and authorisation of land use and development. Strata law considers all the issues developers, occupiers, operators, vendors, businesspeople, and the ordinary Joe face when wanting to develop, buy, manage, sell, or use strata titled properties. What are Strata Titled Properties? Possessing strata or unit title allows you […]
Hit and Run Accidents
Been involved in a ‘hit and run accident’? Not sure who you can get compensation from? Never heard of the Nominal Defendant? It can be scary and confusing when you have been involved in a hit and run. You have been injured, sometimes gravely. Your motor vehicle is likely damaged, and you think you will […]