27 June 3832 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 4799 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 3411 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 3525 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 3078 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 3143 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 9951 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 9033 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 5954 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 12838 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 11089 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 14127 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
13 March 13568 Views Law practice Broken neck from dive into Fitzroy River: "high" risk known to council The Supreme Court has ruled on the claim of a 17-year-old student who sustained quadriplegia in September 2002 when his head struck the river bed dur Continue reading
16 March 8546 Views Personal Injury The law of roundabouts explained by Court of Appeal The vexed question of who has to do what on traffic roundabouts came before the highest court of the state last week by way of an appeal by Suncorp co Continue reading
10 March 15528 Views Personal Injury Council denies liability for bus driver bashed while guarding its cash A 42-year-old bus driver attacked by an unknown assailant with a piece of timber at 7 p.m. in June 2006 at a Balmoral bus stop when returning from a t Continue reading
14 April 6707 Views Personal Injury Resort death shock: when a separate WorkCover assessment is required Part of a Gold Coast security guard's psychiatric injury attributable to post-incident events will be un-compensable, following WorkCover’s successf Continue reading
17 April 6058 Views Personal Injury Limitation bar set high…and plaintiffs must carry defendants’ baggage with them The Court of Appeal reminded plaintiffs on Friday* that the bar to be cleared for an extension of time beyond a limitation period is high and that in Continue reading
18 April 5664 Views Personal Injury Miner extracts $860k from Rio Tinto: Lawn-mowing plays part in ankle injury damages The Supreme Court last week ordered* a Rio Tinto company to pay a 50-year-old dragline operator $864,686.58 damages as compensation for injuries susta Continue reading
15 April 18310 Views Personal Injury ‘Unjust’ law side-stepped: WorkCover sure to prevail on parliament to fix The court of appeal has given workers – and parliament - the benefit of the doubt in construing statutory provisions designed to restrict payouts f Continue reading
12 May 28160 Views Law practice State defeated on workers’ claims: just how unsafe are Southbank slabs? Workers have succeeded twice in two weeks against operators of Brisbane's state-owned Southbank complex, defeating arguments that their only rights la Continue reading
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