10 February 3910 Views Cruise ship injury Royal Caribbean overturns sex assault suspect false imprisonment ruling A cruise ship passenger awarded $97,000 for being locked up for five days in a windowless cabin as the suspect of an on-board sexual assault must retu Continue reading
09 February 3903 Views metal fabrication injury Employer defeated: ‘trivial event’ not the cause of delayed onset severe pain A sheet metal worker whose delayed onset severe pain began several hours after the injury event has defeated his employer’s contention that his symp Continue reading
08 February 5369 Views adverse action Federal Court tops up injury damages with Fair Work compensation How can an employee who suffers psychological injury from bullying and harassment recover Fair Work compensation as well as injury damages? Continue reading
06 February 4598 Views car accident High Court rules insurers to pay all replacement vehicle hire charges, regardless of ‘need’ Up to now, insurers for a road accident vehicle-at-fault have resisted paying an innocent driver’s replacement vehicle hire charges unless the damag Continue reading
17 December 4383 Views psychological injury Overworked council man wins $1.3 mil for “flawed” performance improvement process An overworked section head of the Cairns Regional Council who was blamed for financial errors and subjected to an unwarranted performance improvement Continue reading
16 December 3583 Views Pedestrian accident Court awards tourist $2 mil for pedestrian accident; $900k for replacement limbs A German holiday maker struck by a car on a footpath when its driver lost control on a Noosa Heads roundabout has been awarded over $2 mil in injury c Continue reading
15 December 4627 Views Construction accident Chance & extent of future eco loss “low”: labourer wins $70k global award An appeal court has overturned a ruling that a labourer “not very interested in obtaining employment” was responsible for his own injury and that Continue reading
04 December 3973 Views aircraft accident QantasLink not Qantas: liability trap for passengers on other airline’s aircraft Can an airline that tickets a passenger for a flight under its name escape liability under air carriage law because the flight is conducted on an airc Continue reading
26 November 3035 Views Supermarket injury Shopper’s evidence “strains incredulity” on surveillance video view A customer who failed in substantial damages asked against Coles for an injury in its supermarket carpark has suffered the further indignity of having Continue reading
24 November 3468 Views Logistics worker injury Servo worker rolls WorkCover on “injury just waiting to happen” ruling A long serving customer service attendant whose overuse injury was rejected by WorkCover and the Workers’ Compensation Regulator has got up on appea Continue reading
23 November 4279 Views Recreational accident Insurer fails in bid to move $800k partygoer burn injury claim out of C.Q. The Court of Appeal has refused to interfere with the exercise of discretion by the Central Judge in Rockhampton as to the suitability of his court to Continue reading
20 November 5477 Views aircraft accident Emirates Airlines crashes for second time on refusal to pay injured passenger A passenger who sustained a minor cabin injury aboard an Emirates B777 and who chose to sue in Australia has achieved a major legal breakthrough for a Continue reading
27 October 3363 Views office worker injury Court rebuffs WCQ’s stroke compensation claim denial- what are the consequences? WorkCover is required to accept or reject an application for workers compensation within 20 business days of receiving it. That time constraint has Continue reading
26 October 3524 Views sexual abuse Aspiring airline pilot seeks $7 mil in damages for child sexual assault The victim of a sexual assault as a youth by the owner of a suburban theatre has sought damages for the resulting psychiatric injury he claimed preven Continue reading
24 October 3391 Views car accident Economic loss claim trounced: “capable & intelligent” manager will earn just $1.2k/week A mother with an impressive employment history and a string of occupational qualifications has been ruled by the Supreme Court as likely only to have Continue reading
05 October 3548 Views Inadequate training Inadequate training a whole bunch of trouble for Qld banana empire A Far North Queensland farm worker has won a substantial payout for being injured on the job by a falling banana tree as a result of inadequate traini Continue reading
28 September 4056 Views defamation Facebook abuse injury claim seeks “carriage service” damages A retired NSW solicitor who chose to include an injury compensation claim with defamation proceedings he filed in the Federal Court over vile and abus Continue reading
27 September 3376 Views nervous shock Jurisdiction error proved fatal for father’s aircraft crash nervous shock claim The father of an 11-yr-old girl killed when her light aircraft crashed minutes after take-off from an idyllic Hawkesbury River waterway, has lost what Continue reading
23 September 3835 Views Reasonable management action Senior employee wins psych payout for reasonable management action taken unreasonably An employee of a regional council centered on Moranbah in the Bowen Basin has won a ruling that the management action that caused an adjustment disord Continue reading
13 September 3825 Views Cruise ship injury Oz courts to aid overseas Ruby Princess pax: class action waiver clause “unfair” The Ruby Princess departed Sydney on 8 March 2020 for New Zealand and returned on 19 March becoming the catalyst for the worst COVID-19 outbr Continue reading
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