Serious Injury Manual
1 - Introduction
2 - The serious injury gateways
3 - Work-related and transport-related injury
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)
10 - Adequacy of reasons
11 - Timing issues
12 - Juries and serious injury trials
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
14 - Rules relating to costs
Index
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