WorkCover - Adviceline Injury Lawyers 

Where do I get a claim form?

Workcover claim forms are available from the post office. Your employer may also be able to provide you with a copy. Otherwise, please feel free to contact Adviceline Injury Lawyers and we will send you a copy.

Please note that if your injury or condition came on over a period of time, you should write this instead of a date in the questions that ask when the injury/condition occurred and when you first noticed it.

You should contact our office if you have any other queries regarding the WorkCover claim form.

The claim form must then be served on your employer. If you are claiming for time off work then you need to also have a WorkCover Certificate of capacity. An ordinary medical certificate is not good enough. The employer has 10 days from when it receives a claim to either accept it or reject it and then must forward the claim to its authorised insurer/claims agent. It is possible to lodge a copy of a claim with the authorised insurer/claims agent and this is recommended where there is some doubt as to whether the claim form will be passed on. Penalties can be imposed on employers when claims are not forwarded to the authorised insurer or claims agent.

Once the authorised insurer/claims agent receives a claim it has 28 days in which to accept or reject the claim. If it rejects the claim it should provide written notice of the rejection. If it doesn't reject the claim within the 28 days allowed, then the claim is treated as accepted. Normally, before deciding whether to accept or reject the claim the authorised insurer or claims agent will arrange for you to be examined by one of their doctors.