Early Intervention From Your Personal Injury Lawyer Can Help With Your Recovery

REDCLIFFE, Australia - Nov. 10, 2024 - PRLog -- It is crucial that there be early intervention from a lawyer on an injured person's behalf to make sure that suitable arrangements are put in place, particularly when a seriously injured person has been discharged home after a lengthy hospital stay.

When a person is seriously injured in a car accident, workplace accident etc, the first concern is to ensure that adequate in-hospital treatment is provided to assist the person through the acute injury phase.  That usually means that turning the mind to obtaining legal advice about potential compensation rights takes a backwards seat until the injured person is released from hospital.

However, waiting to obtain that advice until after the person is released from hospital can be detrimental to ensuring that reasonable and necessary care and home needs assessments are undertaken to make the transition from hospital to home an easier and less daunting one.

In 2 recent cases that I have been representing the interests of persons injured in a motor vehicle accident, the situation has arisen where lengthy hospital stays have been ended with very short notice by hospitals seeking to discharge those persons to their home environment with as little as 2 – 3 days notice. The difficultly with such a short notice period is that the type of care and support that is required for persons to live independently at home with their serious injuries takes time to put in place.  The process ordinarily involves:

*Having an Occupational Therapist undertake an assessment of the injured person's home and their individual care needs;

*Requesting funding from either the CTP Insurer or WorkCover Queensland for those needs; and

*Making arrangements with service providers to have care services put in place in time for the injured person's discharge from hospital.

Ideally, that process may take up to 1 month to complete. For assistance with obtaining the funding you're entitled to, in order to cover all of your medical expenses following a workplace or motor vehicle related injury, contact the team at Crew Legal - https://crewlegal.com.au/.