About Us
Stress claims investigations on behalf of Employers in Queensland have a twenty business day acceptance period. During this period Employees are given one week to provide responses to the claim. At that stage if an Employer provides full statements and disclosure material, and particularly if a stress claim arises out of reasonable management action including transfer demotion and other matters, liability for the stress claim can be escaped, meaning that a worker cannot proceed to common law. These are complex investigations and Employers do not often have the specialist knowledge to know what questions to address or provide to Workcover in stress claims.
Because of the urgent turn around period of one week, we suggest you contact our office as soon as you are aware that a stress claim has been lodged. Our success rate in having stress claims rejected currently stands at 97.8% over the last five years.