17 February 4373 Views Personal Injury 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 Continue reading
18 February 4219 Views Personal Injury Adrenaline "would have revived her"; $3 mil QAS asthma attack lawsuit fails Jenny Masson was already wheezing when she came through the front door of her friend’s Brinsmead home. She turned back round to get the Ventolin spr Continue reading
22 February 3314 Views Personal Injury Mining giant trounced on heavy rock compo hold out to "stoic" new recruit An “improbable” injury to a dump truck operator, on the job at a Thiess’ open-cut coal mine near Mackay for just two months, has yielded a $720k Continue reading
24 February 4425 Views Personal Injury Water spill slip – just 90 seconds after cleaning inspection – wins $477k judgement What are the hazards on shopping mall floors that cleaners are expected to regularly detect and remove to keep customers safe? And how oft Continue reading
17 March 3607 Views Personal Injury Shower glue-job results in $223k soap dish injury to part time tenant Ben Fisher purchased his Port Hedland three-bedder in 2010. Six months or so later he noticed that the soap holder on the wall of the shower recess - Continue reading
18 March 3170 Views Personal Injury DIY psych treatment program ruled OK for ambulance officers’ trauma This first responder psychological injury claim arising from exposure to traumatic workplace events is instructive as to their inherent difficulties.< Continue reading
26 March 3365 Views Personal Injury In planes and on boats, bad acts by states lay siege to benevolent federal laws What law must be applied in the adjudication of a claim arising out of an overseas accident that is litigated in Australia? That question frequently Continue reading
27 March 3261 Views Personal Injury One small step for man – employers reminded to keep up the training to staff With no thought of the physical toll that the heavy work might have on his 45-yr-old frame, Jason Kelleher took up his role with Century Batteries at Continue reading
26 April 2964 Views Personal Injury Three Cs biker overcomes chequered police history to defeat Suncorp shakedown in highway tanker prang Consistency consistency consistency. The following is a textbook example of how uniformity in a plaintiff’s account of an accident occurrence can tr Continue reading
27 April 3233 Views Personal Injury Psychiatrist’s suspicions hosed out on miner’s $1 mil depressive illness claim Global resources company Glencore has been ordered to pay $1 mil in compensation to an underground miner for an injury complicated by depression that Continue reading
28 April 3071 Views Personal Injury One of two brothers asleep at the wheel: “You were the driver”, “No it was you”. Step brothers who set off on a road trip to get legal advice about the affairs of their father - deceased in a road accident 4 days earlier - were the Continue reading
29 April 3502 Views Personal Injury Tourist boat back injury foreseeable, just not where big wave caused tourist’s broken back A marine tourism operator has claimed civil liability immunity to avoid payment of $400k compensation for a serious spinal injury sustained by a passe Continue reading
21 May 4682 Views Law practice Doctor shopping? Insurer caught out as injury assessment strategy struck down Just how many medical examinations can an insurer require an injury claimant to endure? Consider the case of William Hinrichsen who suffer Continue reading
22 May 3325 Views Personal Injury Grape slip fall foreseeable but risk of school teacher injury in high traffic area “insignificant” In the world of fruit, grapes rank the highest in the stakes of injury causation to unsuspecting foot traffic. Such a case was yet aga Continue reading
28 May 3719 Views Law practice C.Q. court to review Brisbane bus accident compensation settlement, refuses case transfer A struck-down pedestrian has sued a national law firm for allegedly advising her to “under settle” her spinal injury compensation claim. Natali Continue reading
29 May 4420 Views Personal Injury Order picker in $520k injury win over too low shelf height and “engineered” pick rate An appeal court has ordered a junior grocery chain to pay up on a damages assessment made against it in June 2017 for an injury to a 26-yr-old order p Continue reading
25 June 4507 Views Litigation & Law Practice Expert’s about face allows out-of-time GP ambulance transfer lawsuit An Ipswich GP who allowed a patient to make his own way to the P.A. Hospital emergency room rather than call an ambulance to conduct the transfer has Continue reading
26 June 3184 Views Personal Injury Injury settlement funds depleted, victim recovers financial loss from advisor A financial planner whose too “low key” investment advice to a seriously injured motor accident victim resulted in her funds being depleted has be Continue reading
27 June 3715 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 4569 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
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