September 2020

If you’ve been injured in a motor vehicle accident on or after 1 December 2017 in NSW, you will inevitably have heard the term ‘minor injury’. You may be wondering what this means in the context of your particular claim and how it will impact your entitlement to compensation. This blog provides an overview of the concept of minor injury in the context of the NSW CTP scheme.

In the past, if you were injured in a motor accident in NSW you would need to wait anywhere between two to five years to receive a compensation payment from a CTP insurer. Understandably, this drawn out process put injured people and their families under considerable financial pressure.