Psychiatric and Psychological Injury: WorkCover & TAC Claims
Keep yourself updated on the psychology and the legal trends in psychological and psychiatric injury claims, including bystander PTSD claims. With claims on the rise, understanding both the medicine and the law is essential for all practitioners working in this area. Straddling the medical and legal worlds, this seminar offers a better understanding of how medical professions form their assessments and evaluate claims, and you will gain an update on the Work Accident and TAC claims.
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
2.5 units in Professional Skills
0.5 unit in Substantive Law
Chair: Lisa Paul, Partner, Adviceline
2.00pm to 2.45pm: Stress and Psychiatric Injury in the Workplace Update
- Common Law damages proceedings for psychiatric injury: elements of the causes of action
- Update on recent superior court judgments in cases of pure psychiatric injury arising in the workplace
- Evidentiary concerns: establishing the duty and its content
- Evidentiary concerns: establishing breach
- Damages proceedings for breach of contract resulting in psychiatric injury
Presented by Glenn Worth, Barrister, Greens List Barristers
2.45pm to 3.30pm: THE MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE: Making the Impairment Assessments in both WorkCover and TAC: Common Myths Examined
Presented by Dr Chris Grant, Psychiatrist |
3.30pm to 3.45pm: Afternoon Tea
3.45pm to 4.30pm: RECENT MEDICAL DEVELOPMENTS: Nervous Shock: WorkCover and TAC
Explore the growing risk of psychiatric injury to first responders such as police, fire service officers and paramedics and how to minimise the consequences of regular exposure to road trauma. Presented by Associate Professor Abdul Khalid, Lex Medicus |
4.30pm to 5.15pm: INSIGHTS FROM A PAIN SPECIALIST: Chronic Pain Syndrome: Physical or Psychological?
- Criteria for diagnosis
- Treatment options
- Barriers to successful treatment
Presented by TBC
Venue
RACV City Club
Level 2, 501 Bourke St
Melbourne 3000
VIC
Australia