02 August 4618 Views Personal Injury UK tourists fail to Captain Cook, campervan U-turn splatters Sunday morning bikers They arrived in Melbourne from a bitterly cold UK winter just two weeks earlier and were making their way north along the coast basking in Queensland Continue reading
04 August 6776 Views Personal Injury PTSD and depression: psychiatric injuries of the mind or organic in origin? In some cases, not only can a person’s mind be adversely affected by distress and other emotional reactions in relation to a calamity but alteration Continue reading
05 August 6987 Views Personal Injury Is quad biking a ‘dangerous recreational activity’? A child’s tragic quad bike accident has resulted in an authoritative and concise description of the complex interface between statutory guarantees, Continue reading
06 August 5026 Views Personal Injury Employer’s limitation prejudice ruled relevant to only part of claim Retail giant Coles has failed in an appeal bid to overrule an extension that allows a worker’s injury compensation claim dating from 2005, to procee Continue reading
12 September 5935 Views Personal Injury Insurer hits back at $390k home upkeep damages for neighbour’s pathway fall In steady rain and fading light Sue-Anne Sanig farewelled her 90-yr-old neighbour to descend – umbrella in hand – a garden path and trudge 500m al Continue reading
13 September 5319 Views Personal Injury No helmet, no problem in $2.2 mil skateboard brain injury compensation award How much responsibility should be allocated to a 12-yr-old boy who fell from his skateboard while hitching a ride behind a car? Liam Sch Continue reading
14 September 4228 Views Personal Injury Disc degeneration proved trauma-induced but selfie-inflicted damage sinks eco loss claim A Rockhampton compensation claimant has convinced a court his degenerative disc condition – commonly thought to be age-related – was as a direct r Continue reading
19 September 4678 Views Personal Injury Stonewalling earthmover must make tracks to shift mountain of evidence A three-month stint of fast-paced repetitive copying, collating, hole-punching and binding of thousands of papers to compile training manuals for cust Continue reading
20 September 5560 Views Personal Injury Council worker crushed on $630k crack at never-before-seen machinery failure The tipper was one of many belonging to the Gold Coast City Council vast fleet fitted with a hydraulic tray and a cab-controlled tailgate that swung o Continue reading
22 September 5244 Views Personal Injury Boat thrill rider sprayed on disc thump The Paradise Point outing in April 2010 was intended to give all staff who rolled up the thrill of an authentic jet boat ride on the Southport Broadwa Continue reading
24 September 4523 Views Personal Injury ‘One day wrongfully in jail is one day too many’: $2.3 mil for 6 years locked away Detective Thomas’ intense animosity towards Rosanne Beckett dated from 1983 when her Taree delicatessen erupted in flames. Beckett sue Continue reading
10 October 6399 Views Litigation & Law Practice Candyman nanny left with sour taste over claim $$ Gold Coast’s “Candyman” - the millionaire host to bevies of busty beauties at his luxury waterfront party pad - has notched up a win over his fo Continue reading
11 October 6482 Views Litigation & Law Practice Electrician escapes blame on $820k house inferno; meter, not wiring the cause Justin and Melissa Anderson peacefully rang in this New Year at Barrington Tops relishing the isolation and absence of phone contact. The Continue reading
12 October 6975 Views Personal Injury Palm Island pair win violent arrest damages, police ‘shock & awe’ raid unlawful A further chapter in the extraordinary consequences flowing from the violent death of Cameron Doomadgee at the Palm Island police compound in November Continue reading
14 October 4136 Views Personal Injury Cleaner assaulted in early am car park hook up; Big Mac at fault? A cleaner who claimed to have been attacked “by eight 20-yr-olds” in the car park of a 24 hour McDonald’s in the early hours of the morning in J Continue reading
15 October 5962 Views Personal Injury Solicitor sues his lawyer, jet ski injury compensation damages not enough A South Australian solicitor injured in a jet ski accident Continue reading 16 October 6539 Views Personal Injury Staff breasts ogled by State Library supervisor, covert pics: ‘unconnected to employment’ A supervisor at the State Library used employer-issued equipment to take thousands of covert photographs of the breasts of female staff before his de Continue reading 17 October 5022 Views Personal Injury “Nothing accident” aggravates pre-existing condition on sideways sitting forklift? A 36-year-old cold store employee with extensive experience in the operation of Reach forklifts – where the driver sits sideways to improve control Continue reading 19 November 6986 Views Personal Injury No mat on wet steps, dinner guest wins $782k for fall A dinner guest who fractured her right ankle in a fall on a damp landing after kissing her hosts' goodnight has convinced an appeal court they should Continue reading 20 November 5407 Views Personal Injury Claimant overdoes hand tremor, experts recant on surveillance footage Melanie Digby had worked at the Palmwoods campus for about 12 months when in June 2008 senior Constable Mark Reedman arrived for a “stranger danger Continue reading
16 October 6539 Views Personal Injury Staff breasts ogled by State Library supervisor, covert pics: ‘unconnected to employment’ A supervisor at the State Library used employer-issued equipment to take thousands of covert photographs of the breasts of female staff before his de Continue reading
17 October 5022 Views Personal Injury “Nothing accident” aggravates pre-existing condition on sideways sitting forklift? A 36-year-old cold store employee with extensive experience in the operation of Reach forklifts – where the driver sits sideways to improve control Continue reading
19 November 6986 Views Personal Injury No mat on wet steps, dinner guest wins $782k for fall A dinner guest who fractured her right ankle in a fall on a damp landing after kissing her hosts' goodnight has convinced an appeal court they should Continue reading
20 November 5407 Views Personal Injury Claimant overdoes hand tremor, experts recant on surveillance footage Melanie Digby had worked at the Palmwoods campus for about 12 months when in June 2008 senior Constable Mark Reedman arrived for a “stranger danger Continue reading
Carter Capner Law QLD Compensation Lawyers. Contact our Compensation Lawyers by sending us an email and we’ll get in touch shortly, or phone between 8:30AM and 5:00PM Monday to Friday — we would be delighted to speak. Brisbane CBD office Level 18, 150 Charlotte Street Brisbane City QLD 4000 07 3210 3444 Browns Plains Medical Precinct Office 5/7 Grand Plaza Drive, Browns Plains QLD 4118 Australia 07 3105 5994 P.A. Hospital office 1/250 Ipswich Road, Buranda QLD 4102 Australia 07 3210 3418
Browns Plains Medical Precinct Office 5/7 Grand Plaza Drive, Browns Plains QLD 4118 Australia 07 3105 5994
Have any questions? Call us: