Costs

How much will representation at review cost you?

Declined Surgery offers you a service where whatever the outcome you will ultimately not have to pay any of the legal costs personally.

Declined Surgery will charge you the amount equivalent to the maximum award permitted under the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation (Review Costs and Appeals) Amendment Regulations 2010.

If you are successful those costs will be paid by ACC. If you are unsuccessful the reviewer can still make an award for those costs providing he or she considers the review was reasonably brought. If the reviewer considered the review unreasonably brought and declined to award costs then Declined Surgery would not seek those costs from yourself, as you would have relied on our advice to bring the claim.

In short therefore your review costs would be paid by ACC and if they proved irrecoverable Declined Surgery would waive the right to recover them from you personally.

The practical effect of this agreement is that at no stage would Declined Surgery seek money from you for your review costs.