6.2 Impairment Benefits


6.2.1 Overview of impairment benefits | 6.2.2 Determine liability | 6.2.3 Calculate entitlement | 6.2.4 Impairment assessments | 6.2.5 Psychiatric injury | 6.2.6 Hearing loss | 6.2.7 Loss of a foetus | 6.2.8 Table of maims claims | 6.2.9 Compensation tables | 6.2.10 No disadvantage compensation table | 6.2.11 Table of modification to degrees of impairment | 6.2.12 Further injury hearing loss table | 6.2.13 Eligible Progressive Diseases


Workers may be entitled to receive lump sum compensation for permanent impairment or disabilities incurred through work-related An injury/disease is work related if it arose out of or in the course of employment and the scope of employment. injury:

There are separate processes for claims lodged on or after 12 November 1997 and before 18 November 2004 and those lodged on or after 18 November 2004.

  • Impairment benefits (non-economic loss benefits) may be payable for injuries incurred on or after 12 November 1997.

  • Lump sum entitlements based on the Table of Maims may be payable for injuries incurred before 12 November 1997

 


 

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