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Case notes on how claims are run and decided: damages, time limits, court procedure and the legal profession.
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- Litigation & law practice
Burnt bodies & suicides – officer conceals PTSD, refuses counselling: awarded $1.4 mil
An appeal court has cleared a major injury compensation payment to a crack-hardy police constable whose superiors neglected to monitor her known PTSD condition during the four years after a return-to-work medical made the…
- Defective products
How a pizza sauce put girl in hospital
In March last year Holly Jones purchased two slices of her daughter’s favourite pizza – as she regularly did - from her local Whole Foods store.
- Legal profession
Grade 4 girl gets damages from school for student bullying
An 8-year-old girl whose identity has been suppressed, has settled her claim against a Los Angeles public elementary school for bullying.
- Litigation & law practice
No medical visit till two years later: Nurse awarded $481k
A hard-working aged care nurse who failed to mention her work injury - on any of her many post-accident visits - until two years after the event, has been awarded nearly $500k for its consequences.
- Litigation & law practice
Coal mine classifies personnel as sub-contractors to crush labour-hire injury
A central Queensland colliery has argued that underground miners employed by a third party in its mineshafts were – to avoid injury liability - specialist subcontractors rather than labour hire employees under its direction and…
- Litigation & law practice
Insurer demolition of specialists rejected; assessments ‘substantially’ AMA 5 compliant
A week after the July 2015 motor accident in Padstow Road, Eight Mile Plains, Jay Thuong saw his GP for treatment of the gradual onset of neck and shoulder pain.
- Litigation & law practice
Airlines’ overseas agreements ruled illegal for their effect on Australian competition
Air New Zealand and Garuda Indonesia have both been fined for their role in a price-fixing cartel for air cargo shipments in Australia.
- Litigation & law practice
“Slight shudder” roundabout crash yields $540k for driver
A bus driver who "exaggerated" the force of a traffic accident and the extent of her injuries has been awarded substantial damages by a Brisbane court.
- Litigation & law practice
Feisty street evangelists score damages from police over wrongful arrests
Soapbox preachers “moved on” by police from a street corner in Nambour in September 2013 have claimed $120k for wrongful arrest and unlawful imprisonment.
- Litigation & law practice
Hotel to blame for lax wet weather safety measures
Can a person whose unsafe premises causes an injury, be held responsible for the consequences of a further accident sustained by their victim as a result of the resulting unsteadiness on his or her feet?
- Litigation & law practice
Appeal court slams compo biker’s medical expert “ambush”
An alleged affiliate of notorious Brisbane motorcycle gang members must do battle for a second time to gain compensation from the driver whose careless U-turn in May 2011 on Wynnum Road in East Brisbane, is responsible for his…
- Legal profession
FIFO worker sues for PNG slip and fall in Brisbane
Matthew Dornan negotiated his employment contract with PNG labour-hire company Pacific Manpower Ltd over four months while he was working in Queensland.
Case notes explain decisions in other people’s cases. They are general information, not legal advice, and every claim turns on its own facts.
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