TY - BOOK
T1 - Unexpected Consequences of Compensation Law
AU - Brutti, Nicola
AU - Burns, Kylie
AU - Cameron, Ian D.
AU - Carroll, Robyn
AU - Collie, Alex
AU - Grant, Genevieve
AU - Harrington, Rosamund
AU - Hodges, Christopher
AU - Lippel, Katherine
AU - MacEachen, Ellen
AU - Moore, Jennifer
AU - Scollay, Clare
AU - Senthanar, Sonja
AU - Parker, Christine
A2 - Vines, Prue
A2 - Akkermans, Arno
PY - 2020/9
Y1 - 2020/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/unexpected-consequences-of-compensation-law-9781509928002/
U2 - 10.5040/9781509928026
DO - 10.5040/9781509928026
M3 - Book (Editorship)
SN - 9781509927999
T3 - Hart Studies in Private Law
BT - Unexpected Consequences of Compensation Law
PB - Hart Publishing
CY - Oxford
ER -