Overall traffic crashes are the biggest single cause of hospital presentations for overseas visitors, followed by falls. German, English, American and Japanese tourists were more frequently involved in motor vehicle crashes than other nationalities. Brisbane injury lawyer
The families of MH370 passengers wanting to manage affairs and access insurance can apply to an Australian court to infer death without waiting for the usual 7 year period for “missing” persons by proving the passenger didn’t arrive in Beijing. Australian aviation lawyer
Read moreA spinal injury compensation victory for an Irish tourist arising from an excursion to an inland Fraser Island lake in September 2007 is a subject of an appeal
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The Cruise Lines International Association has announced the adoption by the industry of a passenger bill of rights that guarantees the “safety, comfort and care” of guests.
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As leisure cruising becomes a major segment of the Australian travel market with 53 cruise ships having a daily passenger capacity of 54,000 souls plying Australian waters and visiting 31
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Corporate high-flyers are rare protagonists in injury compensation brawls. So when Neil Balnaves sued after a 2002 head-on boat smash on a narrow bend
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A South Australian tourist has failed to cast “an aura of prostitution and drug use” over a Spring Hill apartment complex where her hand was impaled on a discarded hypodermic syringe.
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A visiting overseas plumber serving out visa-mandated farm duties at a Mungindi cotton gin has been awarded $567,000 injury
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The District Court in Brisbane was asked this month* to absolve a multitude of a statutory and procedural non-compliances relating to a personal injury claim for a U.K. tourist injured in 2001, when an inter-island
Read moreThe NZ embassy in Canberra has now responded to demands about misleading and deceptive injury compensation statements on its website by agreeing that they be immediately removed.
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