Where is KevinG when you need him?
Declan Murphy
years I'm kinda missing it. For a start you can spend Xmas outside on
the beach in your T-shirt and avoid all the piped musak. Plus there is
the regional government' attitude to lawyers....
"The Government has also legislated to prevent personal injury lawyers
advertising their services. This restriction does not apply to divorce
lawyers or conveyancers or anyone else, just the personal injury tribe.
There has been a 50 per cent fall in the number of new personal injury
cases filed in the District Court this year. Common law claims for
industrial accidents are abolished so the old workers comp industry has
all but closed up shop.
(the premier/governor thingee) Bob Carr is delighted: "The fact is there
will be fewer jobs for lawyers, but with their education they are well
placed to go into retraining"
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/18/1071337093189.html
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Ryan Ginstrom
"Declan Murphy" <declan...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> (the premier/governor thingee) Bob Carr is delighted: "The fact is there
> will be fewer jobs for lawyers, but with their education they are well
> placed to go into retraining"
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/18/1071337093189.html
This actually sounds pretty grim to me. The only bigger crooks than lawyers
and politicians are insurance companies, and now NSW residents are totally
at their mercy if they are injured.
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Ryan Ginstrom
Brett Robson
It's not insurance companies this time. Over the last 5 years there has been a
lot of actions that most people would regard as inapproriate. Two cases in
particular the surf life saver and local cities councils were sued. In one case
a man dived into shallow water and was crippled, another was a man swimming
inside the safety flags when a sand bank collapsed. A case a few years ago a man
was award a huge figure (40million?) after a car accident because he had "star
quality" and he was going to be the next Mel Gibson. It was known he was
drinking before he drove the car.
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Drew Hamilton
Only problem with Kevin Gowen was that when he was around, there
were two Kevins, and I could never remember which one was the good
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Ryan Ginstrom
"Brett Robson" <jet...@deja.com> wrote in message
news:bru3i...@drn.newsguy.com...
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:26:03 +0900, Ryan Ginstrom ...
lawyers
> >and politicians are insurance companies, and now NSW residents are
totally
> >at their mercy if they are injured.
>
>
> It's not insurance companies this time. Over the last 5 years there has
been a
> lot of actions that most people would regard as inapproriate.
OK, so a couple cases have made the media. And I am sure the insurance
companies were very glad to see them there.
And as a result, everybody is dependent on the honest and good will of their
insurance companies?
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Ryan Ginstrom
Cindy
<shivering> Now I kind of understand why lawyers have been so
offensively aggressive these days. When they are really really in
trouble, they probably may want to sue me, right? ... for "not using
lawyers often enough".
Declan Murphy
> "Brett Robson" <jet...@deja.com> wrote in message
> news:bru3i...@drn.newsguy.com...
>>It's not insurance companies this time. Over the last 5 years there has
>
> been a
>
>>lot of actions that most people would regard as inapproriate.
>
> OK, so a couple cases have made the media. And I am sure the insurance
> companies were very glad to see them there.
Aye, as Brett has pointed out there were some inappropriate cases.
Compared to the cases that made the meeja though, the main problem has
been a steady and exponentially increasing cost for employer's in terms
of insurance - to the point where it has become a serious disincentive
to invest. Considering that Sydney basically competes with Singapore,
Hong Kong and Tokyo for inbound investment, it needed to be addressed.
> And as a result, everybody is dependent on the honest and good will of their
> insurance companies?
If it was the US (assuming the situation is the same/similar in
each/every US state) then yes there would be fair cause for worry. In
NSW though, just as there is "socialised medicine" (a federal issue),
there is socialised industrial relations, worker's compensation etc.
Instead of being dependent of the insurance companies, its a dependence
on the publicly owned WorkCover Authority (the inspectors hired by the
WA are considered unusually stringent, as are its auditors) and the role
of the NSW Ombudsman.
Ryan Ginstrom
> If it was the US (assuming the situation is the same/similar in
> each/every US state) then yes there would be fair cause for worry. In
> NSW though, just as there is "socialised medicine" (a federal issue),
> there is socialised industrial relations, worker's compensation etc.
> Instead of being dependent of the insurance companies, its a dependence
> on the publicly owned WorkCover Authority (the inspectors hired by the
> WA are considered unusually stringent, as are its auditors) and the role
> of the NSW Ombudsman.
In the US they have a government program called "workers compensation," and
the abuses are infamous. I trust government bureaucrats to run a worker's
compensation system only slightly more than an insurance company, but at
least their idiocy is not motivated by profit.
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Ryan Ginstrom
Declan Murphy
We all must rise to our appropriate level of incompetence. Is there an
office equivalent to an Ombudsman in sepponia too?