Handy Abbreviations / Terminology
Handy Abbreviations / Terminology:
- ACA – Accident Compensation Act 1985
- ACCS – Accident Compensation Conciliation Service
- Agent – Insurer managing claim and authorised representative of VWA – QBE, Allianz, CGU, Gallagher Bassett and Xchanging (were Cambridge Integrated Services)
- Circs – Circumstance / Factual Investigation
- Comp – Weekly compensation
- CWC – Current Work Capacity
- DOI – Date of Injury
- Emp – Employer
- Employer Liability – Threshold which the employer is required to pay – First 10 days of weekly compensation and/or first $660 of medical and like expenses (amount indexed 1st July every year)
- GP – General Practitioner / doctor
- IMA – Injury Management Advisor
- IME / Section 112/S27 – Independent Medical Examination
- IB – Impairment Benefit – lump sum compensation claim for permanent impairment
- MP – Medical Panel
- Med Rep – Medical report
- NCC – No current capacity / incapacity
- OHS – Occupational Health & Safety
- OR – Occupational Rehabilitation
- PIAWE – Pre-Injury Average Weekly Earnings
- RTW – Return to Work
- Section 93CD/Section 165 – application for reinstatement of weekly compensation after payments terminated at 104/130 weeks
- Self-Insurers – organisations authorised by the VWA to manage their own WorkCover claims eg. Toll, Coles, Ford, Qantas, Crown Casino, Westfarmers
- Termo – Termination of entitlement
- VWA – Victorian WorkCover Authority / WorkSafe / WorkCover
- WIRCA – Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013
- Wkr – injured worker
- 13 week review – End of “first entitlement period” where weekly compensation rate reduces to 75% of PIAWE (from 05/04/2010 it will reduce to 80% of PIAWE)
- 104 / 130 week termination – end of “second entitlement period” where weekly compensation ceases if worker has a current work capacity or the incapacity is not indefinite
Handy Abbreviations / Terminology
Handy Abbreviations / Terminology: