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Permanent impairment entitlements: know the tricks, know your rights

By on November 2, 2012 in Compensation, Medical Exam (IME), Medical Panel, Permanent impairmemt, Tips & Tricks

Getting through a permanent impairment assessment in Victoria is not as straight forward as many injured workers may think. There are – unfortunately – many dirty tactics routinely used by so called “independent assessors” (and of course the hand that feeds them, namely the workcover insurance) used to deliberately downgrade your permanent injuries, all in [...]

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The guide to the evaluation of psychiatric impairment for clinicians (G.E.P.I.C.)

By on October 20, 2012 in Medical Exam (IME), Medical Panel, Medical Resources, Permanent impairmemt, Psych, Resources, Tips & Tricks, WorkSafe Vic

By popular demand, here is the Guide to the evaluation of psychiatric impairment for clinicians (G.E.P.I.C) used today to assess permanent primary and/or secondary psychiatric/psychological conditions suffered as a result from or as a consequenceof a workplace injury, by insurance doctors and medical panels. This extremely important Guide was published in the Victoria Government Gazette [...]

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AMA Guide 4th Edition evaluation of permanent impairment handbook

By on June 30, 2012 in Medical Exam (IME), Medical Panel, Permanent impairmemt, Resources, Serious injury

A very loyal reader and good friend of ours has come across and so kindly shared the User Handbook to the AMA 4th Edition Guide to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, which is still used in many states to assess how the whole person impairment is calculated. AMA Guide 4th Edition evaluation of permanent impairment [...]

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WorkCover state the AMA guide does not recognise chronic pain

By on June 12, 2012 in Legislation, Medical Panel, Pain, Permanent impairmemt, WorkCover NSW, WTF

We received an email overnight from an injured worker pointing to a submission as recently made to the Joint Committee into the workers compensation NSW scheme. The submission raises interesting and very important questions, namely that WorkCover states the AMA guide does not recognise (rate) chronic pain and how does this impact injured workers who, [...]

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