In addition to representing the gateway to an award of damages for non-economic loss, the 10% threshold has an expanded role under MAIA in both the Statutory Benefits Arena and in claims for Common Law Damages. In this episode, Andrew Gorman counts the ways.

With MAIA common law claims expected in 2019, Vid Dragomirovic looks at the procedural requirements which the Claimant must meet to make a common law claim.

In this episode, Peter Hunt continues the mini-series of podcasts addressing how weekly statutory benefits are calculated by exploring how the test for post-accident capacity changes after 78 weeks.

After podcasting about PAWE, we now turn to the formulas for calculating weekly payments of statutory benefits in the first, second and third entitlement periods. In this episode, Tain Moxham has a close encounter with how the formula changes after 78 weeks.

Katherine Teague, in this episode, explores how pre-accident weekly earnings must be assessed under MAIA where injury is sustained by a young person, at the start of their career.

One of the critical issues in statutory benefit claims under MAIA is how to calculate the injured person's pre-accident average weekly earnings, particularly where their earnings are not consistent. In this episode, Peter Hunt examines the relevant provisions and discusses two interesting Merit Review decisions.

With claims for common law damages under the Motor Accidents Injuries Act expected in August this year, Eden Christopher from our statutory insurance team provides a brief snapshot of who can lodge claims for damages and what they can claim.

In this episode Chad Farah examines the superficial similarities between MAIA and the Workers Compensation Act 1987, but more so the fundamental differences between the two schemes as well as the pros and cons of their respective regulatory frameworks.

In the first episode of the Proper Lookout Podcast for 2019, Helen Huang unmasks the law on who bears the onus of proof in phantom passenger cases.

In the final episode of the Proper Lookout Podcast for 2018, Audrey Egan examines how DRS has been assessing minor physical injuries.