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austlii:nsw/NSWPICMP/2025/445
General information, not legal advice.
NSWPICMP
2025-06-24
Original judgment source is linked above.
25 September 2024 should be revoked, and a new MAC should be issued. The new certificate is attached to this statement of reasons.
This Certificate is issued pursuant to s 328(5) of the .
The Appeal Panel revokes the Medical Assessment Certificate of Medical Assessor Tim Anderson and issues this new Medical Assessment Certificate as to the matters set out in the Table below:
Chapter, page and paragraph number in NSW workers compensation guidelines
Chapter, page, paragraph, figure and table numbers in AMA 5 Guides
Proportion of permanent impairment due to pre-existing injury, abnormality or condition
Sub-total/s % WPI (after any deductions in column 6)
Chapter 16 Page 78
Total % WPI (the Combined Table values of all sub-totals)
[1] [2017] NSWSC 140 (Ferguson).
[4] [2017] NSWSC 140 (Ferguson).
Tomazos (Deligiannis)
Insurance Australia Ltd [2025] NSWPICMP 445
"In Wingfoot Australia Partners Pty Ltd v Kocak [2013] HCA 43; 252 CLR 480, the High Court of Australia dealt with the nature of the jurisdiction exercised by a medical panel under cognate Victorian legislation. The legislation is not entirely the same, but it is broadly similar in purpose. Allowing for some differences, the High Court said at page 498 [47]: