02 December 695 Views car accident Shattered life for apprentice Blake Hart was 22 when his life changed on Melbourne’s Western Freeway in September 2017. The promising apprentice roof tiler from Geelong had fough Continue reading
04 September 749 Views car accident Stoic chippie wins $602k for “minor” injury A hot pursuit by police on a quiet evening in Bundaberg in March 2022 led to injuries to an innocent driver on his way home. Jack Bauer – an 18-y Continue reading
02 July 495 Views psychological injury Passers-by not owed duty from suicide At around 2:50 pm on Thursday in May 2014, Amy Mallet attempted suicide by driving her car into a power pole at a suburban intersection in Heath Continue reading
01 June 1169 Views First Responders Two separate accidents, one $635k win When Daniel Murphy pulled over on the Gateway Motorway in 2017, he couldn’t have imagined the chain of events that would leave him physically injure Continue reading
12 May 1182 Views car accident Country road smash tops $100k A country road smash near Beerburrum spiralled into a five-year courtroom slugfest — with clashing medical experts, social media bombshells, and fie Continue reading
07 December 3372 Views car accident No grounds to suspect fraud: insurer must give up surveillance pics An injury compensation claimant who lodged her motor accident claim in September 2022 had a surveillance team assigned to her just one month later. Continue reading
31 August 3633 Views car accident Car accident claimant holds back medical history; wins $285k Just how much non-disclosure of an adverse prior medical history can a car accident claimant comfortably explain away? Talitha Towell then aged 31 Continue reading
11 April 3324 Views car accident Intoxicated reveller damages bar: how criminal must conduct be? An intoxicated reveller who threw herself onto the bonnet of a car has defeated a third-party insurers' arguments that such conduct barred her from co Continue reading
27 October 3398 Views Damages Appeal court cans “she’ll be right” verdict; future economic loss upped x 3 A ruling that a seriously injured not-at-fault driver was capable of a return to work following a road accident trial has been rejected on appeal as h Continue reading
25 September 3072 Views car accident Left unconscious in the back of hot car: does CTP apply to heatstroke injuries? CTP insurance responds to an injury compensation claim arising out of someone else’s negligence if the injury results from - among other things – Continue reading
23 August 3137 Views car accident Driver in head-on highway accident also responsible for collision 2km distant At about 2pm on Sunday 17 August 2014, Lisa Collins was heading northwest in the direction of Canberra on the Kings Highway near Monga NSW. She cam Continue reading
21 July 4053 Views car accident 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 accoun Continue reading
21 April 3304 Views car accident Low impact injury, nil physical symptoms: not-at-fault driver wins $201k Can a motor vehicle collision at very low impact speed cause a significant personal injury? Consider the case of Brett Murphy whose taxi was rear-e Continue reading
06 February 4439 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
24 October 3212 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
27 August 3088 Views Limitation Extension Teacher in horror crash gets nod for longstanding psych injury limitation extension He was being driven to work by his wife when they were rammed from behind and spun 180° to allow a full view of the other vehicle being torn in half Continue reading
25 August 4801 Views Unidentified vehicle Court says unidentified vehicle made up; driver gets none of $1.5 mil agreed damages A driver whose ute collided with the rear of a preceding vehicle on a highway in Central Queensland has failed in his attempt to blame the accident on Continue reading
09 July 3237 Views car accident Insurer says: “its just an act”; court says: “your flawed in the head” An Appeal Court has ruled that evidence of “malingering and exaggeration” should not bar an accident victim who “exaggerated or feigned symptoms Continue reading
20 October 4500 Views Financial Advice Negligence Financial advice bar set high: court upholds $1.1 m naivety payout over injury damages mis-spend A financial planner has lost his appeal against an order that he pay compensation to a motor accident victim for failing to warn her against over-spen Continue reading
24 June 3296 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
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