Articles tagged under ‘Impact of compensation’

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• Disputes: at what cost?

  If an employee is suspected of 'gaming the system,' is it worth investigating the matter further and entering into a dispute? We take a look at the costs involved.

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• Dispute Resolutions: How does your jurisdiction stack up?

  The CPM report provides information on disputation rates and dispute resolution rates across Australia and New Zealand schemes. The 2015 report is the 17th report analysing year on year workers compensation data.

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• Disputes: The harm they can cause

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• Claims Process: the stress of making a claim

  When a worker is injured, there might be fears for their job stability, financial burdens, or concern that they will never be able to regain their previous lifestyle.

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• Dr Melita Giummarra: Injury, Compensation and Perceptions of Injustice

  Monash University in association with the Transport Accident Commission conducted a study into perceptions of injustice, chronic pain and pain-related disability.

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• Compensation: does it do more harm than good?

  Professor Ian Cameron from the University of Sydney spoke at the 2016 ISCRR Forum on ways that the compensation claims procedures can be changed as well as other possible interventions.

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• Video: It's time to say good-bye to brain drain

  Rob Aurbach talks about the neuroplasticity, and the impact of negative messages on pain and return to work.

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• Consider the alternative: ADR in the workers' compensation context

  An introduction to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) processes and their application in the Australian workers' compensation system

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• Garnering consensus on the importance of work to health

  Occupational Physicians have brought together a broad group to join forces on changing beliefs and attitudes to being in work

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• Australian Consensus Statement on the Health Benefits of Work

  Occupational Physicians garner stakeholder support to influence policy initiatives and stakeholder management of work and health

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• Decision-making justice Part 2. Getting it right. A MUST READ for Claims Managers

  How you cannot afford to get it wrong, and how you can get it right.

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• Decision-making justice Part 1. The issues. A MUST READ for claims staff and decision makers

  A good decision making process is worth its weight in platinum

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• Backing away from compensation

  A prominent South Australian back surgeon has called for workers' comp for back pain to be scrapped. Why not fix treatment?

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• Price for patients of no-cost compensation

  Should workers' comp recipients share treatment costs with their employers?

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• Preventing further harm to the harmed

  Etymology - the archaeology of words - sometimes uncovers a contemporary resonance in ancient digs.

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• Saying no to compensation

  Lara (not her real name) recovers from brain trauma but eventually quits her job and abandons her claim. Why?

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• System satisfaction?

  Satisfaction with the claims process affects the long term financial, social and health outcomes of compensation recipients. How do we increase it?

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• Compensation: More painful than surgery?

  There is a correlation between compensation and poorer surgical outcomes. What can be done?

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• Litigation in workers' compensation disputes: why we should avoid it

  In the first of our two-part series on the risks and limitations of litigation in workers' compensation disputes, we look at why it should be avoided, and reasons why employees turn to the lawyers.

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• The 'what' and 'how' of your workers' comp dispute: Part 2 - the 'how'

  In the second part of a two-part series on preparing for a workers' compensation dispute we look at 'how' you can best put your prepartion into practice

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• Common law: Jackpot or jinx?

  This fact sheet for workers considering a common law claim outlines pros, cons and survival tips.

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• Highway to hell?

  What's it like to enter the workers' comp system as an ill or injured worker?

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• What's more painful than chronic pain? Chronic pain in 'The System'

  Workers' comp and RTW systems can exacerbate chronic pain, but as Coralie Wales from Chronic Pain Australia explains, that's not the end of the story...

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• Compensation's negative side effects

  We don't talk enough about the poor outcomes associated with workers' compensation.

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• When compensation impedes recovery

  Studies show that workers are less likely to recover from illness or injury if they enter the compensation system.

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• Australian workers' comp overview: Can money buy RTW?

  We use the latest Comparative Performance Monitoring Report to take a look at how money is spent within Australia's workers' compensation system: and suggest that penny pinching is sometimes good for your health!

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• How do social functioning, social relationships and compensation influence RTW?

  Understanding the factors that influence return to work assists in effective rehabilitation.