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Unexpected Consequences of Compensation Law

Unexpected Consequences of Compensation Law

Author: Prue Vines; Arno Akkermans
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509927999

Published In: September 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781509943678

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This book explores the performance of compensation law in addressing the needs of the injured. Compensation procedure can be dangerous to your health and often fails to compensate without aggravation/ creating other problems. This book takes a refreshing and insightful approach to the law of compensation, considering from an interdisciplinary perspective the actual effect of compensation law on people seeking compensation. Tort law, workers' compensation, medical law, industrial injury law and other schemes are examined and unintended consequences for injured people are considered. These include ongoing physical and mental illness, failure to rehabilitate, the impact on social security entitlements, medical care as well as the impact on those who serve - the lawyers, administrators, medical practitioners etc. All are explored in this timely and fascinating book. Contributors include lawyers, psychologists, and medical practitioners from multiple jurisdictions including Australia, Netherlands, Canada, Italy and the UK.

PART I. INTRODUCTION

1. An Overview of Some Unexpected Consequences of Compensation Law

Prue Vines and Arno Akkermans

PART II. AN AGENDA FOR CHANGE? SOME CURRENT SHORTCOMINGS OF PERSONAL INJURY COMPENSATION SYSTEMS

2. Achieving Justice in Personal Injury Compensation: The Need to Address

the Emotional Dimensions of Suffering a Wrong

Arno Akkermans

3. Compensation and Health

Ian Cameron

4. Apples, Oranges and Bananas: Comparative Studies in Australian Workers' Compensation Systems

Alex Collie

5. Workers' Compensation in Canada: Experiences of Precariously Employed Workers in the Return to Work Process after Injury

Katherine Lippel, Ellen MacEachen and Sonja Senthanar

6. Safe as Houses? Lump Sum Dissipation and Housing

Kylie Burns and Ros Harrington

7. Achieving a Just Culture that Learns and Improves

Christopher Hodges

PART III. APOLOGIES

8. An Incentive-based Approach to Apologies and Compensation

Nicola Brutti

9. Compensation for Intangible Loss: A Closer Look at the Remedial Function of Apologies

Robyn Carroll

PART IV. RESPONSIBILITIES OF LAWYERS

10. Exploring the Dynamics of Legal Service Use in Compensation Systems

Clare E Scollay

11. Addressing the Problems of Lump Sum Compensation Dissipation and Social Security Denial: The Lawyer Contribution

Prue Vines

12. Lawyers' Responsibility for Claimant Health in Injury Compensation Schemes: Developing an Ethical Response

Genevieve Grant and Christine Parker

13. The 'Lawyer was an Angel': New Zealand and American Patients' and Family Members' Experiences of the Role of Lawyers in 'Resolution' Processes after Medical Injuries

Jennifer Schulz Moore