November 27th, 2022 12:35 pm

WorkSafe Victoria Instructed to Treat Injured Workers With Dignity and Respect

By |2023-01-24T16:11:05+11:00November 27th, 2022|Categories: Blog, Workcover|Tags: , , |

WorkSafe Victoria Instructed to Treat Injured Workers With Dignity and Respect My letter has arrived informing me that I am one of the 1,500 long-term injured workers WorkSafe is contacting.  So, I had to learn what this was about. It would be best if you were prepared in these distressing situations even though you anticipate the return to the fire pit.  A letter from WorkSafe is never a simple letter. It will never be pleasant, never hopeful and nor will it ever be about justice, support or care. Letters from WorkSafe are about WorkSafe and steered at ticking their boxes.  Injured workers now have to help WorkSafe clean up their mess.

April 12th, 2022 8:53 pm

Soula Mantalvanos, Published Author of the Journal of Medical Internet Research

By |2023-01-24T16:12:25+11:00April 12th, 2022|Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Learn, Living, Online, Professional Resources, Workcover|Tags: , , , , , , |

I'm an author of What Injured Workers With Complex Claims Look For in Online Communities: Netnographic Analysis, now published in one of the world's best medical journals.  

November 13th, 2021 11:21 am

Rosemary McKenzie Ferguson, Australian Injured Worker and founder of Craig’s Table takes top 2021 Comp Laude® Award

By |2023-01-24T16:12:26+11:00November 13th, 2021|Categories: Workcover|Tags: , , , |

Virtual Ceremony Reveals 2021 Comp Laude® Award Winners My beautiful friend Rosemary McKenzie Ferguson, so deserving of your tireless efforts for Australian Injured Workers. The sky is the limit now! Australia, might [...]

November 13th, 2021 11:03 am

NSW insurer icare apologises for underpaying injured workers $38 million

By |2023-01-24T16:12:26+11:00November 13th, 2021|Categories: Workcover|Tags: , , , |

With two damning reports by the Victorian Ombudsman, WorkSafe Victoria and their greedy Insurer mates still find a way to avoid liability for their crimes – yes, crimes! I'm owed at least a few years of my wages while fighting the system – and the rest! Having to sell my home and use it as equity to start a new life due to the lack of support and unethical actions by WorkSafe and thei Insurers. The Victorian Government also escapes liability by allowing WorkSafe and their insurers to act unethically and by assigning an organisation to pretty much legislate itself. I was truly ecstatic to read this article and can imagine the relief of NSW injured workers to finally be able to move past the devastating treatment, trauma and hardship behind them... hopefully! This type of unjust treatment leaves a lot more damage than the injuries we endure at work. Unacknowledged as if we were a third world country. Shameful of Australia... except for NSW! (NSW insurer icare apologises for underpaying injured workers $38 million by Danuta Kozaki Posted 

The chief executive of the New South Wales government's troubled insurer, icare, has apologised for underpaying tens of thousands of injured workers to the tune of millions of dollars.

Key points:

  • A total of 53,000 injured workers in NSW were underpaid.
  • icare will repay $38 million to those affected
  • The chief executive of icare has apologised for the errors
June 4th, 2021 11:34 am

Dear Victorian State Minister, Daniel Andrews MP

By |2023-01-24T16:13:28+11:00June 4th, 2021|Categories: Workcover|Tags: , , , |

Dear Daniel Andrews MP, It's wonderful to see that your recovery is going well.  As a 52-year-old person, I like to think that I live and learn from life experiences. I imagine someone in your position would take that sort of approach also and that with your own living and learning and the experience of Victorians you gather realistic references for your ongoing decision making. Taking this terrible recent accident you have had into account (whether a work injury or not), a horrific pandemic and two reports by the Victorian Ombudsman, I have hope and the expectation that you might be in a position to relate far more to Victorian injured workers (of which I am one) than ever before. Being more specific, can you please consider how you would feel: – being questioned about your injury – being told by an insurance company that the reports about your health from your own medical team do not suffice – having investigators photograph you around your home and day-to-day – being sent to an 'independent medical panel to be reassessed and to prove your injury

February 13th, 2021 10:52 am

Life, Stitched Back Up Again

By |2023-01-24T16:13:28+11:00February 13th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Workcover|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Everything that chronic pain had undone in the first nine years of this 14-year nightmare, Theo and I have managed to finally mend. Stitch by stitch, we made a new house, founded a new livelihood, purchased a more comfy car, made new friends, welcomed a different breed of fur child and all of this in a new (unfamiliar) town. It's a rebirth! All of this, driven by the hunt for pain management after a ball pop, drop and a bang. Or was it...?

September 26th, 2020 12:21 pm

Victorian Workers’ Compensation System – Independent Review

By |2023-01-24T16:13:28+11:00September 26th, 2020|Categories: Workcover|Tags: , , , |

Would have been great if all injured workers labelled as 'complex cases' were notified of this survey participation call. Thank you to my twitter sister, Everyday AUSSIE @GalGeelong for letting me know. [...]

July 26th, 2020 11:55 am

Four Corners Examines Insurers Contracted to run Australia’s Largest Workers Compensation Schemes

By |2023-01-24T16:12:26+11:00July 26th, 2020|Categories: News, Workcover|Tags: , , , |

Four Corners Be sure to watch and share the program. (Excerpt from www.abc.net.au Posted Thu 23 Jul 2020, 6:06pm) “Immoral and unethical”: The financial scandal and human cost of Australia’s failing workers [...]

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