This includes weekly payments to compensate you for lost income while you’re off work, and medical expenses to cover your healthcare, rehabilitation treatments and travel costs.
If your whole person impairment (WPI) assessment is over a certain threshold, you might also qualify for a permanent impairment payout. Finally, a work injury damages (WID) payout may be available as a lump sum if your injury was caused by your employer’s negligence.
If your injury is very serious, you may be entitled to a TPD lump sum payout via your super fund. There’s no complete “list” of injuries that qualify for a TPD claim. Depending on your policy, the key is that your injury has stopped you from going back to your warehousing or forklift job.
Our specialist TPD injury lawyers have made thousands of successful claims on behalf of our clients, and we have a network of hand-picked medico legal specialists who work with us to build winning cases.
In specific situations, you might also have grounds for a public liability claim. For example, if you were injured due to unsafe conditions at a third-party site, you could potentially pursue a public liability claim against the site owner while also receiving workers compensation from your employer.
This type of claim can cover additional damages not included in workers compensation payments, such as pain and suffering or economic losses.