Workers Compensation Roundup
Issues covered include: case update, legislation update, criminal injuries, impairment assessment, appeals to District Court
Description
You wanted a timely and practical workers’ compensation roundup to finish the CPD year and we’ve delivered. Hear about the latest cases and legislative update, review the intricacies of criminal injuries compensation for work-related injuries, get medical perspective insights from Dr Alan Home, renowned occupational physician and understand the complexity of bringing appeals to the District Court.
Attend and earn 4 CPD points including:
2 points in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
2 points in Competency Area 4: Substantive Law
This seminar was recorded in WA on 21 March 2019
Chair: John-Paul Wilson, Principal, Gilchrist Connell; co-author, Workers Compensation – Western Australia chapter of Halsburys Laws of Australia; Preeminent Workers Compensation Lawyer and Recommended Dust Diseases Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018
9.00am to 10.00am: Workers Compensation Case and Legislation Update
Analyse the most important workers compensation and WorkCover decisions and developments in the area and how they will impact your practice.
Presented by Neil Morrissey, Barrister, Albert Wolff Chambers; Preeminent Insurance & Personal Injury Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2018
10.00am to 11.00am: Criminal Injuries Compensation for Work-Related Injuries
- Why make a claim for criminal injuries compensation for work related injuries?
- Gathering the material/information required
- When to make a claim
- The effects of the decisions of the Baker and Cooper
- What the Assessors will do
- How the claims are assessed
Presented by Dr Rob Guthrie, Assessor/ Magistrate-Criminal Injuries Compensation, Department of Attorney General WA
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
11.15am to 12.15pm: THE MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE: Advanced Topics in Impairment Assessment
- Errors in assessments: an update
- Disputed cases
- Reviewing your AMS assessments
Presented by Dr Alan Home, Occupational Physician, Health People Legal
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Workers Compensation Appeals to the District Court
Discuss the practical and legal issues in bringing Workers Compensation Appeals to the District Court.
Presented by John Brooksby, Barrister, John Toohey Chambers