"We are also required to assess under the Scheme guidelines whether someone is entitled to ongoing reasonable and necessary treatment, future financial benefits due to the impact of their injuries, and entitlement to non-economic loss. "This can include rehabilitation, physiotherapy and support services at home.
"It is our priority to work with injured road users and medical practitioners to understand the best possible treatment to support someone's recovery. "We are dedicated to helping the recovery of injured road users under the NSW CTP Scheme.
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"Psychological injuries are injuries that will also be determined by a court when assessing whether or not compensation is payable by the NRMA." Full statement by an NRMA Insurance spokesperson: "In the interest of justice, it will be incumbent upon the court ultimately to critically analyse the conflicting evidence from both these parties," Mr Tabchouri said. He explained that there is only one way to settle these kinds of disputes. Lawyer Elias Tabchouri said, "ultimately what we have here are competing views from two sets of doctors". They said to make this decision, "we rely on medical evidence and where required, independent medical assessments by doctors and specialists".īut Ms Drakos said she believes "NRMA is avoiding their responsibilities all together". In a statement, the insurance giant said it is required to assess whether someone is entitled to "ongoing reasonable and necessary treatment, future financial benefits due to the impact of their injuries". In an assessment by CTP regulators, it states Ms Drakos suffered whiplash and soft tissue injuries. I loved working and I was fit," Ms Drakos said about her life before the accident.īut now unable to work, Ms Drakos said her life has become constant scans, pain injections, specialist appointments and around the clock medications. "I never needed to see a doctor, I never needed to get any treatments or therapies or painkillers. Sydney woman, Sonia Drakos told A Current Affair she has been paying for treatments and specialists, out of pocket. She claims before the accident she "never had any injuries" or psychological issues. Ms Drakos claims she has been paying for treatments and specialists, out of pocket, for six and a half years and she believes she has spent over $30,000. Where is the sense in that?" the 49-year-old said. "NDIS accept that I have a disability and yet the insurance is saying it is … psychological. The government scheme has even approved a new electronic bed for Ms Drakos. "They take me to medical appointments, they do all my domestic side of things, they do my shopping," she said. Ms Drakos has been approved a carer to assist her six days a week by the NDIS. "So, could all these specialists that I have been seeing now for six and a half years be wrong?" Sydney woman, Sonia Drakos, needs a carer just to walk. "If it is psychological, why am I seeing a neurosurgeon, who is a professor? And I am seeing other specialists as well and they all agree that I have permanent nerve damage, I have got spinal cord injury," Ms Drakos said. NRMA said Ms Drakos' claimed injuries from the crash weren't permanent and could be psychological. Her claim for injury compensation was rejected through the At Fault Driver's Compulsory Third Party insurance. READ MORE: COVID-19 calamity spreading across the nation Sonia Drakos speaks to A Current Affair reporter Dimity Clancey. She said her pain is made worse by her battle with NRMA Insurance.
Ms Drakos suffered from what she thought at first to be minor injuries, saying "I would never have imagined that after so many years, I would still have chronic pain". "She hit me twice, on the driver's side, the door was smashed in, the second impact, I don't know what happened, my car lost control and I hit the other car facing down there," she said. READ MORE: Mechanic allegedly caught going for spin in customer's car The car accident happened at an intersection in Sydney's south-west in March 2015.
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