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20 September

2256 Views

Personal Injury

Mill worker’s case crushed: Rejected statutory claim shuts gate on NOCD back injury damages

The crushing this month of a Mackay sugar mill worker’s common law damages claim for an over-period-of-time back injury illustrates well the potenti

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19 September

2700 Views

Law practice

Paint tinter’s limitation loss shines light on rights information censorship

The recent Supreme Court failure of a worker's limitation extension application has highlighted once again how the statutory censorship regime that ap

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15 October

2085 Views

Personal Injury

Claimants hold $350k on appeal: paper lift training needed, how to keep safe from assault

Appeal court battles - intimidating even the most experienced lawyer – can gain a sense of the surreal for plaintiffs who win a contested trial, onl

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18 October

2778 Views

Personal Injury

Court excuses car owner from $200k liability because parent there to make joyride call

After Christmas day lunch in 2005, 17-year-old learner driver Debbie-Jo Simpson got permission to take a farm vehicle for a drive with her brother Sam

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19 October

2158 Views

Personal Injury

Allianz a slave to doomed appeal strategy: accident injuries confirmed genuine

Bitter as they were over the trouncing of their case that mill worker Robert Girone had fabricated his motor accident injury symptoms, Allianz took th

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25 November

2904 Views

Personal Injury

Road rage traffic dodger collected on Logan Rd: driver targets home insurer for $660k foot chase death

On 27 August 2004, Karla Kalimnios was driving home along Logan Road Upper Mount Gravatt in peak hour evening traffic when knife-wielding Jason Ewen â

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25 November

2118 Views

Personal Injury

Ambitious sign cutter wins husband but court sees red over injury income pretence

Insurer suspicions about the veracity of Gympie girl Tenille Rossi's account of the extent to which she was impaired by her September 2003 motor accid

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25 November

2338 Views

Personal Injury

Pac-Fair slurpee fall: plaintiff proves cleaning rotation missed, concealing prior injury excused

Eve Lowe’s tumble on the floor surface remains of a red Slushee outside the Australia Post store at Pacific Fair Shopping Centre – while calamitou

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08 December

2419 Views

Opinonian

Bay of Pigs: Moti scandal disguises Australia shame

Yesterday’s decision to trash the prosecution of a former Solomon Islands attorney general – though the end of a brutal four year battle for Julia

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20 January

1972 Views

Personal Injury

Suncorp steers by sirens’ song: Classy clipper cuts $500k cheque

Claimants’ medical records can so preoccupy an insurer that they become powerless to resist: like mythic

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24 January

2349 Views

Personal Injury

Sixteen schooner a day miner survives tax and drug slurs: escapes with $380k and pride

In a Supreme Court verdict published last week, a Cardwell mine worker's exaggerated recovery from youthful sporting injuries slashed the compensation

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25 January

2174 Views

Personal Injury

Worker absolved of sins of delay, lives to fight another day

A seriously injured truck driver "of limited education" has won the right to pursue motor accident compensation damages after a last gasp limitation e

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24 February

3350 Views

Personal Injury

Sidewalk straddler smacked: $124k for pedestrian wing mirror blow

The Supreme Court this month ruled that pedestrians have every right to stroll on a roadway surface, awarding compensation to a Rockhampton teenager w

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25 February

4801 Views

Personal Injury

Suspicious minds fuel desperate defence: "continuum of symptoms" routs bank beat up

A "big four" bank was last week ordered to halt its refusal of injury compensation to a Gladstone customer server who fell to the floor when the bac

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28 February

4031 Views

Personal Injury

Glaring errors absent in remote rest-stop trip damages payout

It took two trials and as many appeals before three judges, last week finally put Sonia Littlejohn's bitterly contested compensation award against the

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29 February

15312 Views

sexual abuse

Exemplary damages for sexual abuse and trespass: when can you get them?

Recent claims for trespass, battery relating to sexual abuse and wrongful imprisonment well illustrate the discretionary issues to be weighed in award

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17 March

11365 Views

Personal Injury

Woolies check out clanger cashes out customer & changes food fall floor claims forever

Retail duopolist Woolworths was last week ordered by Australia’s High Court to let go the $580,000 injury compensation damages ruled owing in August

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17 March

12146 Views

Personal Injury

Irish brogue scores change to amazing rotten luck

A visiting overseas plumber serving out visa-mandated farm duties at a Mungindi cotton gin has been awarded $567,000 injury compensation damages after

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19 April

4269 Views

Personal Injury

Building owners escape responsibility on CBD glass shatter claim

The owners of one of Brisbane’s oldest high-rise office towers have escaped liability for facial scarring suffered by an intoxicated 29-year-old who

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20 April

11399 Views

Personal Injury

Suncorp smashed on time barrier in motorway flying debris suit

As Vanessa Morris was calmly driving along the Logan motorway,  building materials and engine parts began raining on her car, as if from nowhere. S

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