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The Victorian Injured Worker Outcomes Study: Part 1 — the impact of IMEs on workers’ recovery

Lauren Finestone

A Victorian study into the factors that influence longer term workers’ compensation claims found that some ‘events’ in workers’ compensation systems can lead to lengthy claims. One of those key events are independent medical examinations.

Most injured workers return to work quickly. But a small number of claims go on for weeks, and sometime many months.  Those claims have many negative consequences for injured workers. And they represent a disproportionately high cost to the workers’ compensation system and to society as a whole.  The Victorian injured worker outcome study was keen to understand the factors that influence longer term workers’ compensation c...

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