Recently Ray McClenahan, Partner and Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury at Taylor & Scott who heads our TPD Department, brought a very unusual TPD claim on behalf of one of his clients. Mr M worked in the construction industry all of his life. As a result of injuries received at work to his neck, shoulder…
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Ray McClenahan heads our TPD department here at Taylor & Scott. Ray is an Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury. Ray reports on a recent case he had for total and permanent disablement for a construction worker: “John has spent a lifetime working in the building industry. Unfortunately this heavy work has taken its toll leaving…
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Ray McClenahan, Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury, who also heads our TPD Department at Taylor & Scott, reports on a very happy ending. Ray reported: “Paul came to see me with a compensation claim. He was in his 50’s and had suffered a variety of injuries over the years. He needed a knee reconstruction and…
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Recently, our motor accident law team here at Taylor & Scott successfully completed a claim for an elderly pedestrian struck by a motor vehicle. Our client who had been out shopping, had alighted from the bus and was crossing the street when about half way across she was struck by a passing car. As a…
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Recently, the litigation team at Taylor & Scott finalised a negligence claim for a mine worker who had gone to his local country solicitor seeking assistance following an accident at work. The country solicitor took details of the accident but advised his client that he thought it would be in the client’s best interests to…
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Recently Ivan Simic, Partner at Taylor & Scott and expert in dust diseases claims, acted for a client who had contracted mesothelioma. Our client’s family moved to Warragamba and both our client and his father worked in and around the dam environment. The township that grew up at Warragamba consisted mainly of cottages and workplaces…
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Recently Ivan Simic, expert in dust disease claims, completed a matter for an English migrant worker. Ivan’s client spent his early working life in England doing assembly work and assisting laggers place insulation around hot water and steam pipes. In the 1960s our client migrated to Australia. Various jobs followed from car assembly to tyre…
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Recently Ivan Simic, Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury and expert in Dust Diseases Litigation, acted for a client whose dad and brother had both died of asbestos related diseases. Ivan’s client grew up in a large loving family who had migrated to Australia in the 1950s. Dad went to work at James Hardie. He would…
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Recently Ivan Simic, Accredited Personal Injury Specialist and expert in Dust Diseases, acted for a retired electrician who had been diagnosed with a dust related disease. Ivan’s client had completed an electrical apprenticeship and then worked as an electrical tradesman back in the late 1940s and 1950s. During this time, he had some exposure to…
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David Hartstein, Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury at Taylor & Scott reports. Our client had a CT scan of the brain 2003. The radiologist failed to detect a brain tumour and reported that the scan was normal. Subsequently, our client developed severe headaches and underwent further scanning in 2009 which demonstrated the presence of tumours…
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