LEAD ARTICLE – DECEMBER 2018 Trick or Treat? You may have read an article last month in a state-wide newspaper concerning “claim farming”. Some of the figures quoted were rather alarming – for instance, a figure of $75 per year … Read More
GENERAL ADVICE – DECEMBER 2018 TIPS FOR CONVERSATIONS, WHETHER THEY ARE VERBAL OR WRITTEN Members of an audience will be struck by the dramatic difference in modes of delivery between legal practitioners and medical practitioners. Whilst there will always be … Read More
CASE VIGNETTE – DECEMBER 2018 ASSESSING SPINAL INJURIES USING THE AMA 5 GUIDES Chapter 15 of the AMA 5 Guides explains specifically that whenever possible, the Diagnosis Related Estimate method should be employed. For example, if there is a fracture … Read More
GENERAL ADVICE – NOVEMBER 2018 Medical Negligence – The Most Bitter Pill Of All I suppose less than 10% of my medicolegal practice deals specifically with issues of medical negligence. That ratio is predicated by the frequency of medical misadventure … Read More
CASE VIGNETTE – NOVEMBER 2018 Farm Accidents II have harboured a long-held passion for all affairs of an agricultural nature. My interests extend to cattle, sand mining, sandstone quarrying and also viticulture. When I was a lad, I had a … Read More
LEAD ARTICLE – NOVEMBER 2018 What Does The Future Hold? The personal injury and medical negligence scenes have been evolving slowly but inexorably over the last three or four decades. Whereas the liaison between the medical and legal professions was … Read More
GENERAL ADVICE – OCTOBER 2018 Dealing With The Administrative Appeals Tribunal Far be it for me to lecture a Lawyer on how to deal with the AAT. That is not my brief. Instead, I intend to share some thoughts about … Read More
CASE VIGNETTE – OCTOBER 2018 A Case From 1979 I clearly remember being an Orthopaedic Registrar at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in 1979. I was still an unaccredited Trainee, hoping to enter the esteemed echelons of the Orthopaedic Training Programme … Read More
LEAD ARTICLE – OCTOBER 2018 Horses for Courses Whilst I am reluctant to revisit issues, there are some that are so important that reiteration is valuable. When choosing the expert for the opinion you require for the purpose of litigation, … Read More
LEAD ARTICLE – SEPTEMBER 2018 Keeping It Simple I can imagine that litigation is complex enough. Having an expert further cloud the waters must border on the intolerable. Even though some plaintiffs experience a constellation of complex, almost overwhelming injuries, … Read More