The ABC recently reported a story on former students and survivors of sexual abuse at Gippsland Grammar and their disappointment when they learnt of huge disparities in compensation payments ranging from $40,000 to $1 million for survivors of …
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Whether you are being assisted by a lawyer or you are self-repr…
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Separation is typically a challenging and emotional time, and t…
Many injured workers are unaware they may have a claim for a lump sum compensation payment for permanent impairment under WorkCover (the WIRC Act 2013).
Impairment claims can give rise to a lump sum payment which is tax free and without any e…
If injured, labour hire workers retain significant legal rights to workers compensation for injury, as well as employment protections.
In this blog, I explain what a labour hire worker needs to know about their legal rights.
I address two ma…
Another coverup of child sexual abuse has been discovered, this time involving the Ballarat Orphanage.
The ABC Background Briefing program has revealed that the superintendent of the orphanage in 1964, Hylton Sedgman, was engaged in sexual an…
RCT Law has written to the Victorian Attorney-General recently seeking reform of certain provisions of the Corrections Act 1986 (Vic) which we believe have the unintended consequence of unfairly disadvantaging survivors of historical child abu…
In this blog, I explain what steps are involved should you wish to proceed with a Common Law claim for serious injury, in addition to already having obtained a permanent impairment injury lump sum from WorkCover Victoria.
Impairment versus Com…
Having practiced in workers compensation law for many decades, I’ve noticed that it is often small things, like keeping a medical diary, that can make a difference in obtaining a better injury compensation payout for serious injury. A serious …
WorkSafe is ensuring the safety of workers by laying charges against employers who do not provide the required safety measures to prevent injuries and fatality of workers.
This effort is in response to workplace manslaughter becoming a crimin…
We continue to see an increase in reports of allegations of abuse in the context of schools – an environment where society expects and demands that children are nurtured and kept safe.
The Age has recently reported that complaints of child se…
Getting WorkCover to accept a claim for a psychological injury can be challenging, even as psychological injury claims are spiking as a result of working under the pressures of COVID-19.
However, successful psychological injury claims may be …
Injured workers who have had their Centrelink payments reinstated or who rely on payments while awaiting a Common Law settlement are having to wait long periods during which they have no income.
It is unacceptable to deprive injured workers o…
RCT Law is acting for for a client who alleges to have been abused by a teacher during the 1960s and 1970 in Victoria. We are asking for anyone who may have information about the abuse or have been a witness to it to please come forward.
The …
As Injury lawyers, we are often asked questions about Workplace injury close to retirement age.
The answers lie within the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 which governs the way that compensation is provided to injure…
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