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  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 injured, professionally derailed, and at the centre of personal injury compensation…

  1 June 2025
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  Employer directly liable for supervisor’s gut punch to junior staffer

  A court has ruled Queensland Corrective Services vicariously liable for injury compensation from a supervisor's gut punch to a Woodford Correctional Officer because it was a bad method of staff management.

  6 June 2023
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  Ambulance trolley toppled by hole, $300k for public park fall

  Compensation claims for injuries resulting from a public park fall because of uneven ground usually go nowhere.

  11 March 2023
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  WCQ whipped on compliance ask for NOCD particulars of negligence

  Are "high level" allegations - without particulars of the components of alleged negligence and causation pertaining to an injury - sufficient to meet the requirements of a compliant workplace injury Notice of Claim for Damages?

  30 October 2022
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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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  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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