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WORKLIFE ASSESSMENT

A Worklife Assessment is useful only if it produces certain hard data:
What was the claimant's pre-injury career and employment prospects?
If the claimant can obtain work at all post-injury, what is the best paid
suitable occupation?
How many hours a week can the claimant work? How many years?
How much has injury reduced the likelihood of the claimant being employed?

The Hard Part: Future Earning Capacity
The most difficult and contentious part of a claim for economic loss in personal injury will be the evaluation of future earning capacity. Assessing damages here involves a prediction of an individual's future working life.

Vocational outcomes depend on a host of factors, many of them highly subjective to the claimant. Matters we have dealt involving a blind academic and a quadraplegic farmer illustrate the role of personal willpower in determing post-injury employment.

Worklife Assessments are prepared by Vocational Rehabilitation professionals, in our view the only professionals competent to do so. Their unique understanding of the vocational effects of permanent disability coupled with experience "at the coal face" of assisting impaired persons attempt to secure suitable employment qualifies Rehabilitation Counsellors to provide the evidence required.back to top

Elements of a Worklife Assessment
The Worklife Assessment synthesises all the elements relating to earning capacity in an easy-to-read document that strikes a blance between brevity and thoroughness. It covers:

Pre-injury occupation, career and employment prospects
Chronology of injury, treatment and work-related events
Restrictions due to injury
Analysis of transferable skills
Exhaustive analysis/elimination of potential occupations
Estimate of work capacity (hours per week)
Statistical analysis of future employment prospects

This information forms the basis on which the Forensic Accountant can calculate any loss of earning capacity caused by injury, whether in the form of wages, business profit share or other benefits. Difficult cases involving pre-working age claimants or those in unconventional occupations can pose special difficulties for litigators but are regarded by EVIDEX as a specialty.

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