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Medical Panels FAQ
Medical Panel hearings: 20 questions injured workers ask If your WorkCover claim has been referred to a Medical Panel, you'll be asked to attend a hearing with independent doctors whose opinion is final and binding. A referral to the Medical Panel often occurs when...
How long is too long? AFCA’s approach to delayed TPD and super insurance claims
If you’ve lodged a TPD, income protection or death benefit claim through your super and you’re still waiting months later, AFCA’s May 2022 guidance sets out how it decides whether a fund or insurer has taken too long, and what it can do about it.
What the draft Code of Claimants’ Rights could mean for injured workers
WorkSafe Victoria’s draft Code of Claimants’ Rights sets out how injured workers should be treated by WorkSafe, its agents and self-insurers, covering seven rights from dignity and respect to how complaints are handled. Here’s what the draft covers, and what it doesn’t.
Changes to WorkCover death benefits and other rights
Changes to Victoria’s WorkCover scheme took effect on 6 August 2025, expanding counselling access, adding new payments for grieving families, and introducing a Code of Claimants’ Rights, all aimed at treating people affected by a workplace death with more dignity.
Country Drivers Are Twice as Likely to Skip Their Seatbelt, New TAC Research Shows
New research from the TAC's Road Safety Monitor has found a persistent gap between city and country driving habits: Victorians in regional areas are more than twice as likely to get behind the wheel without buckling up. What the numbers show Rural drivers are...
Victorian Drivers Are Stacking Risky Habits Behind the Wheel, New TAC Research Shows
New research from the TAC's Road Safety Monitor has found that when Victorian drivers take a risk on the road, it's rarely just one. Surveying more than 2,000 Victorian licence holders, the TAC identified a pattern researchers are calling “risk stacking” – combining...
Changes to WorkCover when it comes to silica related diseases
Since 16 June 2021, a diagnosis of lung cancer with silicosis, or scleroderma with silicosis, has been automatically presumed to have been caused by work under Victoria's WorkCover scheme. This reversed the previous position, which required an injured worker to prove...
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How long is too long? AFCA’s approach to delayed TPD and super insurance claims
If you’ve lodged a TPD, income protection or death benefit claim through your super and you’re still waiting months later, AFCA’s May 2022 guidance sets out how it decides whether a fund or insurer has taken too long, and what it can do about it.
What the draft Code of Claimants’ Rights could mean for injured workers
WorkSafe Victoria’s draft Code of Claimants’ Rights sets out how injured workers should be treated by WorkSafe, its agents and self-insurers, covering seven rights from dignity and respect to how complaints are handled. Here’s what the draft covers, and what it doesn’t.
Changes to WorkCover death benefits and other rights
Changes to Victoria’s WorkCover scheme took effect on 6 August 2025, expanding counselling access, adding new payments for grieving families, and introducing a Code of Claimants’ Rights, all aimed at treating people affected by a workplace death with more dignity.
Country Drivers Are Twice as Likely to Skip Their Seatbelt, New TAC Research Shows
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