What is Medico Legal Assessment?Medico-legal Assessments are often referred to as Medical legal assessments or personal injury medical examinations. Medico-legal examinations are often requested by your lawyer, the insurer, or the insurer’s lawyers for the purpose of your ongoing injury [...]
Category Archives: Workers Compensation Claims
Medico Legal Assessments – How to Best Work with Medico-Legal Doctors for Medical Evidence
Top 3 Reasons Your Injury Compensation is Reduced
Foyle Legal specialises in helping injured people to maximise their personal injury compensation payout. Injured people come to us at various stages with their personal injury claims, and we help them to maximise their compensation. In our observation, we found that the top 3 reasons that that [...]
Workers Compensation Travel Claims in Western Australia
When are Travel Expenses Payable Where an injured worker, who has an accepted workers compensation claim in Western Australia, is required by his employer, or a medical, or like adviser, or is advised by his own medical or like adviser, to travel from the place where he resides to a hospital or [...]
Workers Compensation Claim Payments for Award and Non-Award Workers in WA
What should I do if I injured my back at work in western Australia?
Resignation of Employment in Workers Compensation Claims Western Australia
One question that is commonly asked by injured people who have an accepted workers compensation claim is whether they can resign from their employment and what effect that will have on the workers compensation weekly payments they are receiving.Many injured workers are unhappy with the way of [...]
Workers Compensation Claim in Western Australia: FORM 36 Notice to Worker about Termination Date for Election
Have you recently received a Form 36 Notice to worker about termination date election? Foyle legal Personal Injury Lawyers received many enquires about terminate date notice. There many misconceptions about this termination date notice. The most common misconceptions from injured workers [...]
Disputed Workers Compensation Stress Claims
Workers Compensation When You Stop Working For An Employer
Foyle Legal is seeing an increasing amount of workers who are not receiving weekly payments of compensation in circumstances where: Liability for the workers compensation claim is accepted; and Workers Compensation Weekly Payments have been made by the workers compensation insurer to the worker in the past; and The worker quits their employment or [...]
Unlawful Discontinuance of Workers Compensation Weekly Payments
Foyle Legal often sees workers who have had their workers compensation weekly payments discontinued, and after discussing the situation with those workers it becomes clear the workers compensation weekly payments have been discontinued in a manner which is illegal. The reason why this is happening is unclear but it may well be due to [...]
Vital Aspects of a Statutory Benefits Workers Compensation Settlement
Background to WA Workers Compensation Payments Under the Workers Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981 workers who have an accepted workers compensation claim are entitled to:reasonable medical and allied health treatment expenses compensation for loss of wages reasonable workplace [...]
Workers Compensation for Older Western Australians
Until 1 October 2011, Workers Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981 (the Act) used to prescribe that workers would only receive benefits until the age of 65, and if the worker was over the age of 64 at the time of the injury then the worker only has an entitlement to one year of weekly [...]
Workers Compensation WA Notice that Liability is Accepted for Medical Expenses Only
Some West Australian Workers Compensation Insurers issue a Notice that Liability is Accepted (Form 3A) and state that this is for medical expenses only. By doing this insurers are effectively trying to say that they never made a decision in respect of weekly payments and workers who subsequently [...]
