Posts Tagged ‘#personalinjurylaw’
Truckies Rocked by Suicide Trauma Fight for Justice
A Category of Forgotten Worker/Road User This is an extremely distressing topic for us to raise, but we feel that not having the debate is to sit back and perpetuate a failure of the law and insurance for a category of hard-working, everyday people. It is a topic that involves the tragedy of suicide,…
Read MoreInjury involving an e-scooter?
INJURY INVOLVING AN E-SCOOTER? Ongoing Issues Since the first trial of e-scooters in Australia in 2021, the media has been littered with stories of people suffering injury as a result of their foray into riding e-scooters, and/or pedestrian encounters with e-scooter riders. The ABC recently reported that “A study by the Royal Melbourne Hospital found 256…
Read MoreDog Attacks – Your Rights
DOG ATTACKS – YOUR RIGHTS A. What Are Your Rights? The Wrongs Act 1958 (‘the Act’) is the primary legislation in Victoria, which governs claims for personal injury where a person has been bitten by a dog (different legislation applies if the dog bite occurred at work and additional rights flow). As a victim of…
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