Other Areas of Expertise

In addition to the major areas covered by personal injury law, there are a number of more specialised fields which includes the following:

Animal Bites - Animal Bite injuries can be severe and the results are often long-lasting or even permanent.

Asbestos Injuries - This type of injury relates to the contracting of a severe lung condition (known as Mesothelioma) and other serious injuries related to Asbestos exposure.

Aviation Accidents - Pilots, aircraft maintenance organisations and aircraft operators have a Duty to take reasonable care of passengers and employees. If you are injured as a passenger in the activity of a commercial air transport (which is essentially as a fare paying passenger on either a regular public transport aircraft or a passenger on a charter aircraft) then you may be entitled to damages for your resultant injuries.

Chemical Injuries - Long-term, even low level exposure to chemical and/or Toxic substances of many and varied types, can result in life-lasting physical and psychological injuries.

Class Actions (Mass Claims) - This category relates to situations or problems common to many people, where one or more individuals may bring a class action lawsuit on behalf of the group. Class actions are sometimes initiated because individuals do not have sufficient damages to warrant separate lawsuits. For example in the case of Tobacco litigation, Breast implants, Asbestos compensation, Air disaster claims and so on.

Comcare - Comcare is the statutory authority responsible for workplace safety, rehabilitation and compensation for all commonwealth government employees. In the event of injuries or medical conditions sustained at work, Comcare covers employees who work on a full-time, part-time, temporary or probationary basis.

Defective/Dangerous Products - This category relates to products causing injury, and which are often as a result of Poor workmanship, Faulty components, Non-servicing or Lack of required product servicing, Dangerous or unsafe parts and so on.

Diving Accidents - Diving injuries involving all types of accidents are often severe and the results can be at times long-term or even permanent.

Injured in a Public Place - Being injured in a public place can result from many different types of accident eg: A SLIP and FALL accident describes the type of injury suffered on someone else's property as a result of a defect, slippery substance, or other dangerous condition. These injuries commonly occur at supermarkets and restaurants due to food or other materials on the floor etc. PUBLIC LIABILITY, is a type of claim made by people who have suffered bodily injury, sickness, disease or death, loss or damage to property, or loss of use of property, and which has been caused due to the negligence of another person.

Overseas Visitor Injuries - This area covers Visitors from other countries who have been injured whilst in Australia. It also covers Australians who are injured whilst overseas.

Psychological Injuries - Often referred to as the 'Silent Killer' if left permanently untreated, Psychological injuries can at times be more serious and certainly longer lasting than even the most severe of physical injuries. Examples of this may include the the ongoing emotional ' Torture ' and ' Flashbacks ' to a bank hold-up, or continuous discrimination and/or personal persecution in the workplace, or as witness to a criminal offence resulting in another person's serious injury or fatality.

It is also common of course to suffer from both Physical and Psychological injuries simultaneously, as is the case when rehabilitating after a major motor vehicle accident, plane or train crash, earthquake, and many other forms of injury-resultant accident.

School Injuries - When a child attends a school, kindergarten or other educational institution a duty is owed to the student by the school, and that duty is to take reasonable care for their safety. Whether or not an institution will be found negligent for any particular injury depends upon the reasonableness of the conduct of the institution on the particular occasion.

Spinal Cord Injury - The most common causes of damage to the spinal cord are as a result of traumas involving motor vehicle accidents, motor cycle accidents, falls, sporting injuries, gunshot wounds, assault, diving into shallow waters and so on. Dealing with the various issues of this type of Injury requires stringent expertise. Therefore, finding an Expert Lawyer in your area who specialises in this field is essential to obtaining the correct level of your compensation entitlements.

Sporting Injuries - This category covers injuries that can and do result from many forms of competitive participation in sporting club fixtures, training, representative commitments and so on.

Tobacco Litigation - Tobacco litigation is where a claim for compensation is made, due to an injury such as Lung cancer and/or other severely developed injuries have arisen, as a result of smoking causes and/or passive smoking conditions.

Traumatic Brain Injury - Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is defined as an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, which results in either total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment. The most common causes of TBI are related to motor vehicle and diving accidents, strokes, sporting accidents, brain tumours and abuse/assault.

Workplace Accident - This category relates to all types of workplace environments, from an accident on a construction site, to a mechanic working under a car, or someone injured in an office, and almost any other working possibility where your health and well-being have been effected due to an injury caused by unsafe and/or unpractical working conditions. This area also incorporates WORKERS COMPENSATION or WORKCOVER related claims.