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The latest industry insights into compensation law.

A Key Step in Your Claim: The Compulsory Settlement Conference

In our legal system as it once existed, the only way an injured person could access common law damages compensation was to file a claim in court. For some years...

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5 Fast Facts: Asbestos Disease Compensation

Here are 5 fast facts about Asbestos Disease Compensation:

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Modern times no time for complacency about workplace health and safety

Workplace health and safety: Recent decades have seen a gradual decline in workplace death consistent with modern work practices and improved attitudes to safety, but workplace deaths remain an all...

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Asbestos Disease – Claims With Workcover Queensland – Time Limits Strictly Enforced

If you have been diagnosed with any form of asbestos disease and some or all of your exposure was during the course of your employment as a worker for wages...

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Time Limits for Child sexual abuse Claims abolished in Queensland

Victims of child sexual abuse are no longer subject to time limits for claiming compensation, thanks to laws recently passed by the Queensland State Parliament. Previously, sexual abuse victims had...

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Income Protection and Disability Insurance or TPD Claims via Your Super Fund

Almost every working Australian has employer funded super which is a great thing. What many workers don’t know is that they have been paying insurance premiums through their super fund...

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Compensation Entitlements for Teachers Assaulted by Students

Recent publicity about the alarming increase in the incidence of student on teacher violence (see link) draws timely attention to this very concerning problem occurring in our schools. It also...

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