Contents

 
Expand Serious Injury Manual
Expand 1 - Introduction
Expand 2 - The serious injury gateways
Expand 3 - Work-related and transport-related injury
Expand 4 - Meaning of serious injury
 5 - Assessing credit
 6 - Effect of statutory compensation payments and estoppel
 7 - Expert evidence
 8 - Referral to medical panels
 9 - Assessment of physical injuries (AMA Guides)
Expand 10 - Adequacy of reasons
Expand 11 - Timing issues
 12 - Juries and serious injury trials
Collapse 13 - Rules relating to damages
    13.1 - Statutory ceilings and thresholds on damages
    13.2 - Recoverable damages
    13.3 - Damages reduced in relation to compensation payments and contributory negligence
    13.4 - Statutory entitlements ceasing upon award of common law damages
    13.5 - Interest
    13.6 - Discount rate for future economic loss
    13.7 - Example of the calculation of damages
Expand 14 - Rules relating to costs
 Index