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Your injury may vary, minor to severe
Below is a list of common injuries:
Head injury, or brain injury, back injury, whiplash injury, shoulder injury, broken bones including nose, arm, leg, finger or toe fractures including fractured shoulder, arm, leg or finger, loss of limb I.e the loss of a leg or arm, loss of finger, thumb or toe, wrist injury or hand injury and there are many more...
The Workers Compensation and Rehabilitation Acts vary across Australia and may state that a worker can lodge a statutory claim when injured travelling (directly) to or from work.
If you are injured while operating a motor vehicle, motorbike, and bicycle or even injured whilst walking to work, then you may be entitled to apply for Workers Compensation to cover you whilst you are unable to work as a consequence of your injury. This is called a 'Workers Compensation Journey Claim' and is prescribed under the Workers Compensation Statutory Claim Scheme. The entitlements that may be claimed under the Workers Compensation Statutory Scheme include wages whilst a worker is unfit for work and medical treatment costs.
When lodging a WorkCover ‘Journey Claim’, the requirementsare that the injury must take place outside the worker's premises border line, and if the accident occurs on the way to or from work, during work hours on approved duties, between jobs (if you travel from site to site), also if the worker has an existing claim, and travelling between work or home or a medical appointment.
If the worker has a fatal accident on the way to or from work or during work hours (with no ‘other driver’) the family of the worker (spouse and/or children) may be able to bring a claim losses.
If the worker has a fatal accident on the way to or from work or during work hours (with the ‘other driver at fault’) the family of the worker (spouse and children) may be able to claim Workers Compensation Statutory Scheme rights and may also be able to run a CTP claim for losses.
Under some Workers Compensation laws, if the worker has a fatal accident on the way to or from work or during work hours (with the ‘other driver at fault’) and the deceased worker does not have any direct family; the parents or siblings generally may be able to bring a claim for funeral expenses.
To find out more about Journey claims and what YOU are entitled to seek legal adivce.
Please note that the above is general advice only and in every case, specific advice based upon the facts of your injury are required