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 moreFebruary 17, 2019 | 132 viewsBurnt bodies & suicides – officer conceals PTSD, refuses counselling: awarded $1.4 mil
An appeal court has cleared a major injury compensation payment to a crack-hardy police constable whose superiors
Read moreJanuary 15, 2018 | 1,430 viewsModel patient wins humiliation $$ after Dr’s unwelcome full body exam
A Gold Coast medical specialist who made a proposition to a patient that she should become his mistress has been ordered to pay compensation for the resulting psychiatric injury and humiliation.
Read moreDecember 6, 2017 | 1,087 viewsSales pro in $1mil damages win
In 2003, experienced car salesman Peter Fulmer was employed to acquire and on-sell cars for a profit of approximately $200k. His employer, Australian Motors, was owned and directed by Grahame and Shane Thompson.
Read moreOctober 20, 2017 | 1,235 viewsSTATE SUNK ON APPEAL, LOSES $558K INJURY IMMUNITY BID
In January 2012 Moyra Roane-Spray was being transferred from an ambulance at the Lamb Island ferry terminal en route to Redlands Hospital when the stretcher she was carried on collapsed at one end.
Read moreOctober 20, 2017 | 1,125 viewsFRESH FOODIES TO PAY OVERWORKED ORDER PICKER $780K FOR BACK INJURY
A Cairns man has been awarded substantial damages after he sustained a debilitating lumbar disc protrusion at the Raintrees Woolies store in Cairns.
Read moreOctober 13, 2017 | 1,213 viewsCOURT ORDERS INSURER REASSESS TPD REJECTION
Edwin Gomez was employed by Queensland Health as a registered nurse until made redundant in 2013. In 2011 he was working in Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital
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