What are the hazards on shopping mall floors that cleaners are expected to regularly detect and remove to keep customers safe?
Read moreFebruary 24, 2019 | 166 viewsWater spill slip – just 90 seconds after cleaning inspection – wins $477k judgement
February 22, 2019 | 175 viewsMining giant trounced on heavy rock compo hold out to “stoic” new recruit
An “improbable” injury to a dump truck operator, on the job at a Thiess’ open cut coal mine near Mackay for just two months, has yielded
Read moreFebruary 19, 2019 | 42 views“Insurance is only good if you never have to claim”
That lesson was learned in a big way by a defence materiel company in whose care a Royal Australian Navy $50 million patrol
Read moreFebruary 18, 2019 | 133 viewsAdrenaline “would have revived her”; $3 mil QAS asthma attack lawsuit fails
Jenny Masson was already wheezing when she came through the front door of her friend’s Brinsmead home. She turned back round to get the Ventolin spray from the front
Read moreAugust 25, 2017 | 1,178 viewsAccident risks to cyclists don’t stop at the kerb
Insurers have in the past refused to pay injury compensation claims to injured cyclists because cycling – they argue –is a
Read moreJuly 31, 2017 | 1,803 viewsNo medical visit till two years later: Nurse awarded $481k
A hard working aged care nurse who failed to mention her work injury – on any of her many post-accident visits – until two years after the event, has been awarded nearly
Read moreJuly 30, 2017 | 861 viewsCoal mine classifies personnel as sub-contractors to crush labour-hire injury
A central Queensland colliery has argued that underground miners employed by a third party in its mineshafts were – to avoid injury liability – specialist subcontractors rather than labour hire employees under
Read moreJuly 29, 2017 | 891 viewsInsurer demolition of specialists rejected; assessments ‘substantially’ AMA 5 compliant
A week after the July 2015 motor accident in Padstow Road, Eight Mile Plains, Jay Thuong saw his GP for treatment of the gradual onset of neck
Read moreJuly 28, 2017 | 604 viewsAirlines’ overseas agreements ruled illegal for their effect on Australian competition
Air New Zealand and Garuda Indonesia have both been fined for their role in a price fixing cartel for air cargo shipments in Australia.
Read moreJune 30, 2017 | 999 views“Slight shudder” roundabout crash yields $540k for driver
A bus driver who “exaggerated” the force of a traffic accident and the extent of her injuries has been
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