Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION REGULATION 2014 - SCHEDULE 4A

SCHEDULE 4A – Section 193A compensation for specified workers

1 Amount of section 193A compensation

Section 193A compensation consists of the following amounts for an injury sustained by a specified worker in relation to whom the qualifying condition is satisfied—

(a) an amount of compensation (the
"DPI amount" )—

(i) payable under the graduated scale in section 2 of this schedule; and

(ii) applied to multiple injuries in the way provided for under section 3 of this schedule;

(b) an amount of compensation (the
"legal cost amount" ) payable towards legal costs if the worker engages a lawyer and incurs legal costs for particular things done under part 4 , division 3A .

2 DPI amount generally

A worker who sustains a DPI shown in column 1 is entitled to the amount shown in column 2 opposite the DPI.

Graduated scale

3 DPI amount for multiple injuries

(1) This section prescribes the DPI amount if the worker—

(a) has sustained multiple injuries from 1 event; and

(b) receives a notice of assessment for the worker’s physical injury and another notice of assessment for the worker’s psychological injury.

(2) The worker is only entitled to 1 payment for the DPI amount, being the amount shown in section 2 , column 2 opposite the DPI—

(a) shown in section 2 , column 1; and

(b) that is the higher of the DPI percentages stated in the notices.

(3) However, subsection (4) applies if—

(a) a worker is paid the DPI amount based on a notice of assessment for an injury; and

(b) the worker later receives a second notice of assessment for a different type of injury; and

(c) the second notice of assessment states a DPI that is higher than the DPI stated in the first notice of assessment but is not more than 5%.

(4) The worker is entitled to another payment for the DPI amount, being the amount shown in section 2 , column 2 opposite the DPI—

(a) shown in section 2 , column 1; and

(b) that is equal to the difference between the DPI percentages stated in the notices.

Example of DPI amount if subsection (4) applies—

A worker with a DPI of 3% is paid a DPI amount of $18,894 for a physical injury. The worker later receives a notice of assessment stating a DPI of 5% for a psychological injury. The worker is entitled to be paid an additional DPI amount of $12,596 for the difference of 2% between the DPI percentages.

4 Legal cost amount

(1) This section applies if a worker has engaged a lawyer and incurs legal costs for doing 1 or more things mentioned in column 1.

(2) The worker is entitled to the amount shown in column 2 opposite each thing for which legal costs were incurred.

	Column 1 Circumstance	Column 2 Legal cost amount $
	Giving information to an insurer under section 112I within the period mentioned in the section	1,700
	The worker and the worker’s lawyer attending a meeting mentioned in section 112K	2,000
	The worker, under section 112N , applying to the panel to review an insurer’s decision	1,000
	The worker giving information to the panel under section 112N (2) (c)	1,700

Example of when a legal cost amount is included in section 193A compensation—

A worker with a DPI of 5% who has engaged a lawyer to give information to an insurer, attended a meeting with the lawyer and the insurer, and had the insurer’s decision reviewed successfully, is entitled to section 193A compensation totalling $36,190, being $31,490 for the DPI amount and $4,700 for the legal cost amount.