Compensation

Advantage Legal Principal Solicitors, Ana Jaglic and Leigh Davidson have recently achieved their Specialist Accreditation in Personal Injury law.

Looking for answers about NSW compensation claims? The Advantage Legal ‘Compensation Insider’ series provides injured people, allied health providers and medical professionals with answers to questions that commonly arise from NSW personal injury compensation claims in both a short and snappy format as well as a more comprehensive form.

People react differently to being involved in a motor accident. That’s why the NSW CTP scheme requires insurance companies to customise individual recovery plans. A tailored approach to rehabilitation can often be the difference between a full recovery or lifelong issues.

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.

So, you’ve been involved in a car accident in NSW in 2019. You’ve heard that the Police don’t always come to the scene of the accident anymore and that the CTP laws have recently changed.  But what does that all mean right now, in the heat of the moment?  Here’s the nuts and bolts of

If you haven’t been involved in a motor vehicle accident, consider yourself lucky. In 2017, 12,055 serious injuries occurred as a result of motor vehicle accidents in NSW leading to hospitalisation.  There were also 367 fatalities in 2017, a figure which sadly was overtaken by October 2018. Whilst the statistics alone are frightening, the point

If you’ve been injured in a motor vehicle accident, one of the first things you need to do is obtain a medical certificate from your General Practitioner.   This is an important first step in a CTP claim and will also help you long-term in claiming the appropriate benefits from the CTP insurer. Your medical