SIRA bulletin - Issue 36
Have your say on the McDougall Review, COVID-19 and future opportunities for personal injury schemes
SIRA has released a consultation paper that seeks feedback on:
- reforms to workers compensation thresholds and entitlements recommended in the McDougall Review
- reforms to thresholds, entitlements and costs that were proposed in the 2020 Law and Justice Review of the workers compensation scheme
- options to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on customers of the workers compensation and CTP schemes
- preliminary ideas for modernising and aligning customer experience and support within the workers compensation and CTP schemes.
Customers, stakeholders, providers and regulated entities are invited to review the consultation paper and provide feedback before 4 November 2021.
Latest on the SIRA Hub
New workplace rehabilitation provider approval framework
Workplace rehabilitation providers in the NSW workers compensation system will be subject to a new approval framework from 1 January 2022 that focuses on improving return to work outcomes.
Latest results on CTP insurer performance
The June 2021 report on CTP claims experience and customer feedback provides the latest data to help you compare insurer performance and understand a customer's claims journey in the motor accidents scheme
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Evaluation of allied health certification
Reports evaluating the effectiveness of COVID-19 measures that allowed physiotherapists and psychologists to issue certificates of capacity and fitness have been published.
Indexed adjustments to workers compensation benefits
The Workers compensation benefits guide has been updated to reflect increases in amounts used to calculate entitlements to compensation, which applied from 1 October 2021.
Indexed adjustments to motor accidents benefits
The latest indexation of damages payable for non-economic and economic loss, weekly statutory benefits, and legal costs and medico-legal fees applied in the motor accidents scheme from 1 October 2021.
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