Personal Injury Claims in Wollongong

Personal injuries can be devastating to your finances. Not only do you have to pay for your medical care, you might also be missing work and going without your salary while you recover. In some cases, you may not recover enough to be able to continue with your job. Filing a compensation claim can help minimize the financial problems that can occur due to this type of injury.

There are three main types of compensation claims that you may file in NSW. These include workers compensation claims, motor vehicle accident claims and public liability claims. For each of these types of claims you have three years to file from the date of your accident. Personal injury lawyers can help you through all of the legal requirements to file your claim.

You can only file these compensation claims if you are not at fault for the accident. Besides filing claims through the insurance company of the other party, whether it is your workplace, the driver of the other vehicle in a motor vehicle accident or the owner of a public place or a company that manufactured a defective product that injured you, you may also be eligible to file a common law claim for further compensation.

Personal injury lawyers can help you get compensated for lost income, either past or future, as well as medical bills and pain and suffering. In the case of workers compensation claims, your work impairment must be at least 15 percent to file a common law claim. In the case of a motor vehicle accident, you must have at least a 10 percent disability to file a common law claim.

In order to file any type of compensation claim, you must follow certain steps within a certain time frame, so if you experience an injury at work, are involved in a motor vehicle accident that is not your fault, become injured in a public place due to negligence of the owner, or get injured by a defective product you should contact a personal injury lawyer to find out what your rights are and what you need to do in order to be eligible to file a compensation claim.