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  DV outreach worker awarded $1.25 mil for assault by client’s husband

  A worker who is harmed a consequence of their employment but at a place totally unconnected with it can often recover compensation for the resulting injury.

  28 October 2022
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  Horse breaker needed a bigger unit: inappropriate co-worker costs stud $1.4 mil

  Sean McCormick had registered his concern that the assistant with whom he had been paired in his contracted role as a horse breaker on a thoroughbred stud near Picton NSW was of “small stature”.

  29 September 2022
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  Everywhere worker gets green light to sue in Queensland for NT injury

  A worker has been allowed to sue in Queensland for damages over an on-the-job injury in the Northern Territory by proving her usual employment was in no particular state.

  31 August 2022
• Mining injury

  Labour hire worker causes $1.9 mil injury: host employer at fault

  A coal mine using a hired-in workforce has been ordered to bear most of the cost of a severe injury caused by a labour hire worker.

  27 July 2022
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  Fatigued driver wins $1.13 mil from employer for single vehicle accident

  How can a court decide on what - among several competing factors - was the cause of a single vehicle accident in the absence of any eye-witness accounts and where the driver has no recollection of what happened?

  21 July 2022
• Farm worker injury

  Party hosts liable for lapse in precautions amid unlimited alcohol supply

  A party guest who was set alight with petrol while camping out at his host’s Darling Downs grain farm has won substantial damages for the burns he sustained from a prank intended to get him to re-join the celebration.

  20 June 2022
• Workers compensation appeal

  QIRC upholds workers’ comp application made 17 months after first GP consult

  The Queensland Industrial Relations Commission - QIRC - has validated a worker's application for compensation lodged 17 months after the date she was handed a GP medical certificate for the injury.

  22 April 2022Queensland Industrial Relations Commission
• First responders

  Officer wins $860k for police failure to review mental health prior to return to duty

  An appeal court has upped the damages police must pay an officer for deploying her back to general duties after the onset of multiple non-work related traumas where there was a failure to review mental health.

  24 March 2022
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  Judge lashed for poor job on race course worker’s repetitive strain injury reasons

  What happens if after years of preparation for a trial - a judge fails to give reasonable consideration to a party’s evidence and then provides hopeless reasons for the decision he made?

  22 March 2022
• Office worker injury

  “Torrent of abuse” hurled at vulnerable worker: QIRC allows animal control psych claim

  A vulnerable worker has rolled a workers' compensation provider on its rejection of her statutory psychological injury claim arising out of daily abuse received from the customers she was required to deal with in the animal…

  11 February 2022
• 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 symptoms were caused by a trivial incident unconnected to his work.

  9 February 2022
• 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?

  8 February 2022Federal Court

Case notes explain decisions in other people’s cases. They are general information, not legal advice, and every claim turns on its own facts.