28 April 2883 Views Personal Injury One of two brothers asleep at the wheel: “You were the driver”, “No it was you”. Step brothers who set off on a road trip to get legal advice about the affairs of their father - deceased in a road accident 4 days earlier - were the Continue reading
29 April 3298 Views Personal Injury Tourist boat back injury foreseeable, just not where big wave caused tourist’s broken back A marine tourism operator has claimed civil liability immunity to avoid payment of $400k compensation for a serious spinal injury sustained by a passe Continue reading
21 May 4385 Views Law practice Doctor shopping? Insurer caught out as injury assessment strategy struck down Just how many medical examinations can an insurer require an injury claimant to endure? Consider the case of William Hinrichsen who suffer Continue reading
22 May 3156 Views Personal Injury Grape slip fall foreseeable but risk of school teacher injury in high traffic area “insignificant” In the world of fruit, grapes rank the highest in the stakes of injury causation to unsuspecting foot traffic. Such a case was yet aga Continue reading
28 May 3521 Views Law practice C.Q. court to review Brisbane bus accident compensation settlement, refuses case transfer A struck-down pedestrian has sued a national law firm for allegedly advising her to “under settle” her spinal injury compensation claim. Natali Continue reading
29 May 4190 Views Personal Injury Order picker in $520k injury win over too low shelf height and “engineered” pick rate An appeal court has ordered a junior grocery chain to pay up on a damages assessment made against it in June 2017 for an injury to a 26-yr-old order p Continue reading
25 June 4297 Views Litigation & Law Practice Expert’s about face allows out-of-time GP ambulance transfer lawsuit An Ipswich GP who allowed a patient to make his own way to the P.A. Hospital emergency room rather than call an ambulance to conduct the transfer has Continue reading
26 June 2995 Views Personal Injury Injury settlement funds depleted, victim recovers financial loss from advisor A financial planner whose too “low key” investment advice to a seriously injured motor accident victim resulted in her funds being depleted has be Continue reading
27 June 3490 Views Personal Injury “Adequate”; system of work found wanting in hospital patient’s attack on nurse A 46-yr-old nurse overrun by an aggressive hospital patient has defeated her employer’s argument that it had an adequate system in place to prevent Continue reading
28 June 4312 Views Personal Injury Adrenaline ruling reversed: brain damaged patient treated with wrong drug The Court of Appeal has overturned the acquittal of QAS’s handling of an emergency asthma casualty who suffered a catastrophic hypoxic brain injury Continue reading
20 June 2955 Views bicycle accident Injured cyclist loses sea legs: Judge pans “purportedly objective” medical expert in $644k win A cyclist who swerved to avoid a vehicle exiting a designated parking bay on a wide Townsville thoroughfare has been awarded substantial damages for i Continue reading
22 June 3034 Views Personal Injury Hazard warnings part of road repair function: council pays biker $304k for absent danger sign Councils and other authorities responsible for roads enjoy broad liability immunity for injuries caused by their otherwise negligent omission to keep Continue reading
23 June 2708 Views truck accident Truck accident avoidable by flouting traffic laws; court holds driver negligent for not flouting A court ruling that made a wide-load truck driver responsible for an $850k traffic accident injury because he didn’t disobey road rules has been app Continue reading
24 June 2856 Views car accident Ford v Ferrari: at-fault insurers must pay for equivalent luxury in replacement vehicle hire The NSW Court of Appeal has ruled in four test cases what hire charges are payable by at-fault drivers for a "free" replacement vehicle provided to th Continue reading
07 February 9638 Views Personal Injury Secretary’s awkward lift bad for betting boss: Tabcorp pays out on paper box back injury The box weighed about 12.7 kg. It contained 5 reams of photocopying paper. Kathryn Dank was as close as she could get to it. Leaning forwa Continue reading
05 February 8736 Views Personal Injury Taxi cab confession costly: Client’s claim not filed because of poor prospects It began in the taxi feeder rank at Brisbane airport in October 2002 when the driver was enjoying a lull and was eating a banana at the time he steppe Continue reading
06 February 5730 Views Personal Injury Solicitor hoisted on own petard: oily rag strategy no excuse after 4.5 year lapse No step taken in his client's contract claim for more than four and a half years proved fatal in an application made by a Toowoomba solicitor for leav Continue reading
23 February 12579 Views Personal Injury Lockhart crash settlement one of final chapters in tragedy This week saw the resolution of another passenger claim arising out of the May 2005 Transair Metroliner crash in which 15 occupants were killed when i Continue reading
06 March 10827 Views Opinonian A people’s revolt in Australia? Let’s advance alphabetically As in the Arab states, Australian politicians are widely regarded as opportunist kleptocrats who will do just about anything to stay in power and have Continue reading
07 March 13814 Views Law practice Suncorp triumphant in limitation brawl with naïve 16 yr old – what did she know? Elizabeth Hargans was in year 11 at Somerville House school when she was injured in June 2004 when her then-boyfriend drove into parked cars on a bott Continue reading
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