Legal Articles

Gerard Malouf and Partners Accredited Personal Injury Specialists Lawyers provide the following articles for your reference.

Articles:

Asbestos & Dust Diseases Compensation Rights
published 17/06/10
If you believe you have a significant Dust Disease or Asbestos claim you could have acquired this disease through exposure to Asbestos and developed mesotheliona, lung cancer - pleural plaques or kidney disease or another Asbestos related disease.  Under those circumstances, you may be eligible for compensation.

NEW CHANGES TO SUCCESSION PLANNING
published 23/02/10
Amendments to the Succession Act, assented to on the 9th June, 2009 commenced this year. 

Medical negligence birth case secures $8 million for profoundly handicapped man
published 04/12/08
It won’t give him real quality of life – that was denied him at birth because of medical negligence – but a 24-year-old man’s future is more secure, following a decision, this week in the NSW Court of Appeal.

Injury Claims - Complications Arising From The Continual Use Of Pain Relieving Medications
published 21/10/08
As a result of injuries sustained in work accident or motor vehicle claim accidents or other injuries sustained, it is common for doctors to prescribe apart from other forms of treatment, medications for pain relief.  These can be non-steroid or anti-inflammatories and stronger types of pain relieving medication.  Often, such medication is used on a long term basis, and it is in these instances where complications can arise.

NSW Hospitals Lack of Adequate Care
published 1/09/08
In a recent internal report looking into deaths at Western Sydney Hospital the Report has revealed that more than half of the patients did not receive adequate care.

Towards Healing - Sexual Abuse & the Catholic Church
published 28/07/08
World Youth Day celebrations this month brought out the best in human behaviour lead by the world’s youth who celebrated life and the future through a series of events and celebrations throughout Sydney.

Benefits Of Vocational Rehabilitation
published 07/06/08
Vocational rehabilitation refers to programs that seek to return disabled or injured individuals to their optimal physical, mental, social, vocational, and economic ability.

Public Liability Cases - Assembling Evidence & Getting Results
published 07/06/08
In public liability matters, there are fundamentally 5 areas in which evidence can be collected to ensure that a comprehensive investigation and assessment of the claim has been established.

How Can You Assist Your Lawyer In Your Personal Injury Claim?
published 06/06/08
Key things to do & how this benefits your claim.

Insurance Claim Property Damage – Why you should not accept an Insurer’s denial of liability
published 06/06/08
It is common for insurers to deny liability. This is often accepted by people as something that they have no power to challenge. The fact is, however, that denial of liability is something that can be challenged in some circumstances.

Understanding The Uniform Defamtion Laws
published 04/06/08
The introduction of the Uniform Defamation Law became effective generally on 1 January 2006. The advantage is that the Defamation laws in each state are substantially the same.

Modified Common Law Damages
published 01/06/08
A worker injured in NSW may have a right to sue for modified common law damages along with other entitlements under the Workers Compensation Act 1987. A modified common law claim will mean that you will be compensated for your past and future economic loss.

Risks due to adverse insertion of contraceptive devise
published 14/05/07
These two case reports describe migration of Implanon® (the single-rod contraceptive implant). A review of the literature revealed true migration of Implanon to be rare. A change of practice locally is described.

Press Release 23 April 2007
AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST CREDIT REFERENCE AGENCY IS INVOLVED IN A CLASS ACTION WHICH CLAIMS NEGLIGENCE, DEFAMATION AND BREACHES OF TRADE PRACITCES ACT THAT COULD AFFECT 1 OUT 7 AUSTRALIANS.

Elections Undone - published 13/03/07
The lump sum entitlements of many workers were recently restored in the majority NSW Court of Appeal decision Humphrey’s...

Contsting a Will - published 31/08/06
The law generally recognises a persons right to make a Will that is unfettered by the normal constraints as to what is fair...

Claimant Against Housing Commission, Injury Walking Down External Stairs - published 24/05/06
Mrs T was a lady in her early 30’s living in a Housing Commission home.

Facts Sheet on Vioxx, Side Effects, Complications and Litigation - published 20/12/04
Additional to the information contained in the previous document, we have discovered more recently that Vioxx litigation worldwide will probably be one of the largest mass torte litigations ever undertaken.

Vioxx Recall & Compensation - published 25/11/04
Vioxx was withdrawn from the worldwide market by its manufacturer, Merck USA at the end of September, 2004.

Mr H Motor Vehicle Accident
Mr H is a gentleman who was a pensioner in his late sixties at the time of the motor vehicle accident on the 23rd December, 1999. Mr H had a car accident and as a result sustained multiple injuries.

Dust Diseases/Asbestosis
Many people particularly workers in the 1950’s and 1960’s were unaware of the potential life threatening effect of exposure to asbestos dust that ultimately has been proved to cause disabling and life threatening conditions.

Workers Compensation claims
Overview on the basics of what this is but more of a focus on latest changes in legislation and types of cases or even brief case examples.

Workplace Negligence
Accidents happen and accidents cause injuries. All too often, the workplace is the scene for many of these unfortunate events. Two distinct arms of the law cover compensation for workplace injury.

Motor Vehicle Accidents
Annually in NSW almost thirty thousand people are injured in motor vehicle accidents. Many of these people are seriously injured in a way that alters their lifestyle and their ability to work for extended periods, if not their entire lives.

Claiming Compensation for Slip and Fall Accidents
Slipping and falling in your local shopping centre may seem like a minor incident but it can have serious long-term consequences. Such accidents can not only adversely affect your health, but also your capacity to work and your lifestyle.