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...
Draft Code of Claimants' Rights: What It Could Mean for Injured Workers | Claven Burdess Lawyers What the draft Code of Claimants' Rights could mean for injured workers WorkSafe Victoria has released a draft Code of Claimants' Rights, setting out how injured workers...
Victoria's 2025 WorkCover Reforms: Supporting Families After a Workplace Death | Claven Burdess Lawyers Supporting families after a workplace death: what's changed under Victoria's 2025 WorkCover reforms On 6 August 2025, changes to Victoria's WorkCover scheme came...
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...
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