11 April 4240 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 3391 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 3979 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 3772 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 3821 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 2762 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
05 December 3518 Views Entertainment venue injury Expert tradie does job; occupier liable for tragic injury 25 yrs on By what means can those injured as a result of negligent construction more than 25 years ago hold the premises occupier liable and recover compensatio Continue reading
29 November 3507 Views Cruise ship injury Ruby Princess damages fail a playbook for disappointment damages asks Readers will recall that Ruby Princess - a Carnival vessel - sailed from Sydney on 8 March 2020 for New Zealand and returned on 19 March due Continue reading
13 October 3901 Views Medical Negligence Spinal surgery gone wrong: patients in compensation push A spinal surgeon who was reprimanded in 2011 for unsatisfactory professional conduct is facing lawsuits from two patients for spinal surgery gone wron Continue reading
12 October 3545 Views Construction accident Will never work again: court awards $2.8 mil for freak accident Does the occurrence of a freak accident imply that any resulting injury was unforeseeable? In March 2019 Kari Sivonen was helping clear a developme Continue reading
09 October 4219 Views Entertainment venue injury Heavily drunk patron wins $12.5 mil for bouncer retaliation In what circumstances is a nightclub "bouncer" responsible for injuries to an intoxicated and provocative patron who he retaliates against to restrain Continue reading
08 October 2710 Views Medical Negligence Catastrophic surgical outcome: hospital to pay up big Surgical misadventures in the case of infants can have devastating consequences. Sosefina Puletua and her husband had taken their son – around 3 Continue reading
31 August 4084 Views car accident Car accident claimant holds back medical history; wins $285k Just how much non-disclosure of an adverse prior medical history can a car accident claimant comfortably explain away? Talitha Towell then aged 31 Continue reading
29 August 3656 Views Cyclist accident Nothing done to avert risk; court halts $200k to injured cyclist In what circumstances can an injured cyclist recover damages against a local council for failing to remove an obstacle that creates a “not insignifi Continue reading
24 August 2825 Views Factory accident Judge pans Dalby plant operator’s denial of hazard creation liability A worker who fell from a ladder while descending from the top of a 14.5-m high silo to land on a concrete slab below has won substantial damages from Continue reading
16 August 5599 Views Road & footpath injuries Real estate agents sued for open house driveway injury Can agents be held liable for failing to take adequate precautions to prevent injuries to potential buyers from hazards in homes they open up for insp Continue reading
06 June 3572 Views First Responders Employer directly liable for supervisor’s gut punch to junior staffer A court has ruled Queensland Corrective Services vicariously liable for injury compensation from a supervisor's gut punch to a Woodford Correctional O Continue reading
04 June 3736 Views aircraft accident Swedish families sue in Australia for parachute air crash defects The surviving family members of eight skydivers killed in a 2019 plane crash in Sweden have sued the Victorian manufacturer of the aircraft in a Melbo Continue reading
29 May 3221 Views Unidentified vehicle Hot pursuit of at-fault driver not essential for unidentified vehicle claim Is a road accident injury victim required in an unidentified vehicle claim to give hot pursuit to identify an at-fault vehicle in an attempt to read a Continue reading
21 April 3063 Views Cruise ship injury Full steam ahead for river cruise disappointment damages The New South Wales Court of Appeal yesterday delivered the (probably) final test case ruling relating to the 2014 Rhine River cruise disruption and d Continue reading
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