12 June 731 Views sport injury Long jump sand pit hazard proved on appeal What began as a fun and exciting primary school athletics trial culminated in a serious injury to one of the participants that lead to a Supreme Court Continue reading
11 June 701 Views sexual abuse Abuse survivor in win against carer, but fails against spouse & state Mary (a pseudonym) is an abuse survivor who was made a ward of the state in 1967 at the age of four and placed with long-term foster carers, the Phela Continue reading
11 June 582 Views aircraft accident Air Canada mid-air turbulence causes serious injuries When Renae Evans and her daughter boarded an Air Canada flight AC33 from Vancouver to Sydney in July 2019, they had no idea their journey would become Continue reading
11 June 255 Views Road & footpath injuries Second-hand trauma a question of degree Can an at-fault driver be responsible for nervous shock sustained as a result of being told that a family member has been involved in a minor traffic Continue reading
01 June 404 Views First Responders Two separate accidents, one $635k win When Daniel Murphy pulled over on the Gateway Motorway in 2017, he couldn’t have imagined the chain of events that would leave him physically injure Continue reading
02 June 640 Views defective products Jury delivers Roundup a $3 billion product liability verdict Jurors in the United States handed down a USD$2 billion product liability verdict in March after finding the company that produces Roundup weed killer Continue reading
12 May 395 Views car accident Country road smash tops $100k A country road smash near Beerburrum spiralled into a five-year courtroom slugfest — with clashing medical experts, social media bombshells, and fie Continue reading
16 March 322 Views Entertainment venue injury Corkage dispute leads to knife fight at entertainment venue A night of intended celebration at a popular entertainment venue descended into chaos and a violent stabbing that left one man seriously injured. I Continue reading
12 February 194 Views sexual abuse Allianz okayed to dump abuse insurance cover for Knox Insurer Allianz has persuaded the Federal Court that it is not liable to cover the majority of child sex abuse insurance claims made against the prest Continue reading
20 January 176 Views defective products Trampoline manufacturer escapes defective product payout The protagonist in this account jumped on to a trampoline - which he later contended to be a defective product - at his sister’s residence in Brisba Continue reading
16 October 1806 Views Construction accident Worker’s lapse maims offsider; how can victim sue? How can an injured worker recover injury compensation damages for an on-the-job accident when an employer has put in place a safe system of work only Continue reading
13 October 1727 Views psychological injury DV assailant waives spouse’s claim limitation defence from his cell Claims against assailants for injury compensation damages from domestic violence events are on the rise. In May 2023 the Queensland Court of Appeal Continue reading
08 October 1879 Views psychological injury Without warning: emotional worker sues for demotion hurt When can the circumstances of performance counselling lead to a successful injury compensation claim if the worker sues? Consider the case of Rober Continue reading
07 October 1292 Views Medical Negligence GP negligent for failing to follow up non-compliant patient A patient who demonstrated reluctance to follow her GP’s advice has nevertheless sued her for having failed to more persistently counsel the need to Continue reading
11 April 2816 Views Medical Negligence Hospital to pay big for patient’s bowel perforations and stroke The cost of ongoing domestic care for victims of hospital negligence is a major component of compensation awards when serious injury results. Consi Continue reading
31 March 2304 Views Medical Negligence Nurses bump hospital bed: ICU patient wins $350k for spinal injury Graham Cleary’s career as a freight delivery driver that involved a large component of heavy manual handling inevitably carried a high risk of devel Continue reading
28 March 2578 Views Cruise ship injury No wriggle room on ACL interpretation: consumers forever on top Australia’s top court has emphatically ruled that the protections that the Australian Consumer Law provide to consumers and small businesses are imp Continue reading
25 March 2167 Views aircraft accident Turbulence event exposes Air Canada to major damages claims A court has ruled that state laws apply to the formulation of damages recoverable by international airline passengers for cabin injuries sustained in Continue reading
07 December 2502 Views car accident No grounds to suspect fraud: insurer must give up surveillance pics An injury compensation claimant who lodged her motor accident claim in September 2022 had a surveillance team assigned to her just one month later. Continue reading
06 December 1911 Views Pedestrian accident Pedestrian on a road has same rights as a motorist A pedestrian knocked down by a passing ute at night on a dark country road has defeated a CTP insurer’s argument that he should have been walking on Continue reading
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