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TGB’s personal injury team writes about the requirements for paid care in compensation claims for people with catastrophic injuries. People who have suffered spinal or brain injuries are likely to need some level of personal and domestic assistance. There are many agencies in South Australia who provide personal care...
Read moreTGB's Tim White has welcomed the federal government’s response to widespread allegations of abuse within the Australian Defence Force.
Read moreTGB’s Dimitra Bouras writes about how thousands of people injured on South Australian roads would be potentially impacted by proposed changes to the state’s insurance scheme. UPDATE: Many of these proposed changes became law from July 1, 2013. Click here for more information. If you have been injured in an accident...
Read moreTGB’s personal injury team writes about including home modifications in compensation claims for people with catastrophic injuries. When people sustain spinal injuries, they often need significant structural modifications to their home. If a person is restricted to a wheelchair, ramps are a very important modification...
Read moreMilitary compensation lawyer Tim White provides an update about a pending government response into alleged abuse in the Australian Defence Force. On 14 June 2012, Defence Minister Stephen Smith released the Executive Summary of Volume One of the report into allegations of sexual and other abuse in the ADF. Just under a month...
Read moreThere has been a dramatic rise in serious injuries to cyclists from road accidents but a government plan threatens to take away their right to compensation, writes TGB's Barney Gask.
Read moreTGB’s personal injury team writes about the impact of catastrophic injury on interstate and overseas travel plans, and the compensation process. If a person has a catastrophic injury, it is usually a spinal (paraplegia or tetraplegia injury) or brain injury, or in the most serious circumstances both forms of injury. Catastrophic...
Read moreThe European Commission (EC) is taking pro-active steps towards reforming the controls on medical devices to prevent a repeat of the PIP implant scandal, but what about Australia’s regulator? The EC is proposing new policies to ‘address both the assessment of a device’s safety ahead of approval, as well as continued surveillance...
Read moreThe laws that cover wrongful birth and unplanned pregnancy may be controversial but are here to stay, writes TGB’s Medical Negligence law team. Wrongful birth cases are controversial. Many people don’t accept that compensation should be available for wrongful births. There are two polarised moral positions. The...
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