CES Consulting Pty Ltd in Woodend, Victoria | Lawyer & law firm

CES Consulting Pty Ltd

Locality: Woodend, Victoria

Phone: +61 417 107 436

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22.01.2022 We are now dealing with a scheme that has reverted to ‘processing of claims’ rather than ‘management of claims’ and the main reason that I believe this has occurred is volume and EML’s inability to cope with the number of claims that they are now responsible for."

22.01.2022 WorkSafe have advised the following arrangements for the 2020/21 Premium Calculation: The claims reporting period will be for those received from 1st January 2017 - 31st December 2019. The allowable recoveries period will be for recoveries received between 1st April 2017 - 31st March 2020. The scheduled date of claims costs extraction remains unchanged as late March (expected 31st March 2020). ... The 3 year remuneration experience period will be from 1st July 2016 - 30th June 2019. The most notable change is extending the current 2.5 years claims experience period out to 3 years. As a result of this change, which means that some claims will be captured that would not normally have been, some different ‘rules’ will apply to the more recent claims. For those claims reported between 1st July 2019 - 31st December 2019 (i.e. last 6 months of the reporting period), only weekly payments will be included, all other payments and the SCE will be excluded from the costs taken. For claims reported between - 1 January 2017 to 30 June 2019 - claims costs will continue to include actual payments and WorkSafe's Statistical Case Estimate for claims received during this 2.5 yrs.

21.01.2022 The Victorian Govt recently passed the COVID-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Act 2020, an Act designed to "temporarily amend certain Acts, and to temporarily empower the making of regulations, to modify the application of the law in Victoria in certain respects for the purpose of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic." Section 623N of this new Act extended the 130wk termination notice period from 13 weeks to 39 weeks.... This alteration applies for all claims with a 130wk termination notice issued between 1st Dec, 2019 and 23rd Oct, 2020. This means that weekly benefits on all claims where a a 130wk termination was put into affect between 1st Dec 19 and this Act being introduced recently, will be reinstated for an additional 6 month period. More information is available from WorkSafe in the link provide below.

18.01.2022 A Provisional Payments Pilot for Victorian emergency workers is being trialled for mental health injuries. Under the pilot, payment for medical treatment can continue (for a maximum of 13 weeks) even in the event that liability for the claim is rejected. Watch this space!

02.01.2022 **NSW update** "This section creates a presumption that if a worker in prescribed employment contracts COVID-19 then it is to be presumed that the disease was contracted in the course of employment and that the employment was a substantial and main contributing factor to contracting the disease." Employers in certain industries (i.e. 'prescribed employment") in NSW will need to prove the condition was not contracted at work (how on earth can you do that?) otherwise liability ...is accepted. We begin to wonder if such legislation will lead to things like the flu or the common cold being accepted as "work related" if you work in an industry (i.e. 'prescribed employment") where you might be exposed to such, non-work related, illnesses.