Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 232ZA

232ZA Worker entitled for interim period elects to seek treatment, care and support damages

(1) This section applies if the worker—

(a) is an eligible worker for the worker’s injury only for an interim period; and

(b) elects to seek treatment, care and support damages for the injury.

(2) Judgment for damages for the injury can not be awarded, and settlement for damages for the injury can not be agreed, until the first of the following happens—

(a) the interim period ends;

(b) the insurer decides, under section 232S , the worker is entitled to treatment, care and support payments for the injury for the rest of the worker’s life;

(c) the worker stops being entitled to treatment, care and support payments under section 232S (7) or another provision of this Act.