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A serious accident during passenger disembarkation at a remote Australian airport, demonstrates the relative safety responsibilities of airlines, grou

A central Queensland mine worker with multiple pre-existing medical conditions has been awarded substantial damages for a rare injury induced by prolo

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

A Cairns man has been awarded substantial damages after he sustained a debilitating lumbar disc protrusion at the Raintrees Woolies store in Cairns.

In January 2012 Moyra Roane-Spray was being transferred from an ambulance at the Lamb Island ferry terminal en route to Redlands Hospital when the str

A Gold Coast medical specialist who made a proposition to a patient that she should become his mistress has been ordered to pay compensation for the r

An appeal court has cleared a major injury compensation payment to a crack-hardy police constable whose superiors neglected to monitor her known PTSD

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

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

What are the hazards on shopping mall floors that cleaners are expected to regularly detect and remove to keep customers safe?
And how oft

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 –

This first responder psychological injury claim arising from exposure to traumatic workplace events is instructive as to their inherent difficulties.<

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

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

Consistency consistency consistency. The following is a textbook example of how uniformity in a plaintiff’s account of an accident occurrence can tr

Global resources company Glencore has been ordered to pay $1 mil in compensation to an underground miner for an injury complicated by depression that

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

A marine tourism operator has claimed civil liability immunity to avoid payment of $400k compensation for a serious spinal injury sustained by a passe

Just how many medical examinations can an insurer require an injury claimant to endure?
Consider the case of William Hinrichsen who suffer

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

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

A financial planner whose too “low key” investment advice to a seriously injured motor accident victim resulted in her funds being depleted has be

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

The Court of Appeal has overturned the acquittal of QAS’s handling of an emergency asthma casualty who suffered a catastrophic hypoxic brain injury

A cyclist who swerved to avoid a vehicle exiting a designated parking bay on a wide Townsville thoroughfare has been awarded substantial damages for i

Councils and other authorities responsible for roads enjoy broad liability immunity for injuries caused by their otherwise negligent omission to keep

A court ruling that made a wide-load truck driver responsible for an $850k traffic accident injury because he didn’t disobey road rules has been app

The box weighed about 12.7 kg. It contained 5 reams of photocopying paper. Kathryn Dank was as close as she could get to it.
Leaning forwa

It began in the taxi feeder rank at Brisbane airport in October 2002 when the driver was enjoying a lull and was eating a banana at the time he steppe

No step taken in his client’s contract claim for more than four and a half years proved fatal in an application made by a Toowoomba solicitor for leav

This week saw the resolution of another passenger claim arising out of the May 2005 Transair Metroliner crash in which 15 occupants were killed when i

Elizabeth Hargans was in year 11 at Somerville House school when she was injured in June 2004 when her then-boyfriend drove into parked cars on a bott

The Supreme Court has ruled on the claim of a 17-year-old student who sustained quadriplegia in September 2002 when his head struck the river bed dur

The vexed question of who has to do what on traffic roundabouts came before the highest court of the state last week by way of an appeal by Suncorp co

A 42-year-old bus driver attacked by an unknown assailant with a piece of timber at 7 p.m. in June 2006 at a Balmoral bus stop when returning from a t

Part of a Gold Coast security guard’s psychiatric injury attributable to post-incident events will be un-compensable, following WorkCover’s successf

The Court of Appeal reminded plaintiffs on Friday* that the bar to be cleared for an extension of time beyond a limitation period is high and that in

The Supreme Court last week ordered* a Rio Tinto company to pay a 50-year-old dragline operator $864,686.58 damages as compensation for injuries susta

The court of appeal has given workers – and parliament – the benefit of the doubt in construing statutory provisions designed to restrict payouts f

Workers have succeeded twice in two weeks against operators of Brisbane’s state-owned Southbank complex, defeating arguments that their only rights la

The plaintiff claimed her massage therapist had misrepresented his qualifications as to “counselling”, had inappropriately advised her on personal

A landmark judgment that traverses multiple aspects of the law of negligence this week delivered more than $760,000 to a Gold Coast social worker foll

The line of authorities that demonstrates how plaintiffs might recover double damages against joint tortfeasors was bolstered on Thursday by a Supreme

A “draconian” guillotine order that has the effect of automatically dismissing a motor accident injury compensation claim – should the plaintiff f

The spectacular collapse last month of a “deceitful” plaintiff’s injury compensation claim was for once a magnificent vindication of the (usually unsu

Allianz failed to overturn a $160,000 running down a verdict on the grounds the trial judge had engaged in unsupported speculation by relying on her �

The Supreme Court on Friday ordered that a “stoic” plaintiff awarded $200,000 for the death of her 66-year-old workaholic husband should also recover

Breast Screen Queensland was last week protected by a Supreme Court ruling from disclosing internal communications pertaining to the negligent diagnos

In a joint judgment, three appeal judges last week admonished QC Syd Williams for a “lack of understanding about domestic tasks” over trivialising gra

Three patrons who allege they were assaulted by police officer Adam Reedy at the Hotel Cunnamulla in May 2005 commenced proceedings for “general, aggr

Despite no satisfactory explanation for a 3 year delay, a 26 yr old plaintiff was this month allowed to proceed with a negligent “schoolyard supervisi

The crushing this month of a Mackay sugar mill worker’s common law damages claim for an over-period-of-time back injury illustrates well the potenti

The recent Supreme Court failure of a worker’s limitation extension application has highlighted once again how the statutory censorship regime that ap

Appeal court battles – intimidating even the most experienced lawyer – can gain a sense of the surreal for plaintiffs who win a contested trial, onl

After Christmas day lunch in 2005, 17-year-old learner driver Debbie-Jo Simpson got permission to take a farm vehicle for a drive with her brother Sam

Bitter as they were over the trouncing of their case that mill worker Robert Girone had fabricated his motor accident injury symptoms, Allianz took th

On 27 August 2004, Karla Kalimnios was driving home along Logan Road Upper Mount Gravatt in peak hour evening traffic when knife-wielding Jason Ewen �

Insurer suspicions about the veracity of Gympie girl Tenille Rossi’s account of the extent to which she was impaired by her September 2003 motor accid

Eve Lowe’s tumble on the floor surface remains of a red Slushee outside the Australia Post store at Pacific Fair Shopping Centre – while calamitou

Claimants’ medical records can so preoccupy an insurer that they become powerless to resist: like mythic

In a Supreme Court verdict published last week, a Cardwell mine worker’s exaggerated recovery from youthful sporting injuries slashed the compensation

A seriously injured truck driver “of limited education” has won the right to pursue motor accident compensation damages after a last gasp limitation e

The Supreme Court this month ruled that pedestrians have every right to stroll on a roadway surface, awarding compensation to a Rockhampton teenager w

A “big four” bank was last week ordered to halt its refusal of injury compensation to a Gladstone customer server who fell to the floor when the bac

It took two trials and as many appeals before three judges, last week finally put Sonia Littlejohn’s bitterly contested compensation award against the

Recent claims for trespass, battery relating to sexual abuse and wrongful imprisonment well illustrate the discretionary issues to be weighed in award

Retail duopolist Woolworths was last week ordered by Australia’s High Court to let go the $580,000 injury compensation damages ruled owing in August

A visiting overseas plumber serving out visa-mandated farm duties at a Mungindi cotton gin has been awarded $567,000 injury compensation damages after

The owners of one of Brisbane’s oldest high-rise office towers have escaped liability for facial scarring suffered by an intoxicated 29-year-old who

As Vanessa Morris was calmly driving along the Logan motorway,  building materials and engine parts began raining on her car, as if from nowhere. S

The description of the daily routine of Wacol’s correctional centre prisoner population in an April district court injury compensation award, may not

An aggressive 24 yr old British tourist injured during an arrest in the Roma St backpacker precinct has recorded a compensation win against the employ

A $1.28 million damages claim was rejected last week amid controversy over the extent to which video surveillance evidence contradicted a plaintiff’s

Management at Couran Cove resort was excused for failing to act earlier to fire a lunatic tradesman who seriously injured his 60 yr old co-worker by

A 28 yr old would-be police officer, who broke her ankle by falling into an unguarded stairway void at South Brisbane’s Chalk Hotel in the dying hou

Outstanding deeds from elite athletes demand all their ducks rowed neatly and just a feather out of place can ruin a performance or even a promisi

A  “technologically dumb” store clerk injured in a company-sponsored game of tunnel ball in August 2008, has been awarded $270,000 personal injury c

It turns out that alighting from truck cabs and earthmoving machinery is indeed a hazardous affair, the su

A South Australian tourist has failed to cast “an aura of prostitution and drug use” over a Spring Hill apartment complex where her hand was impal

A self-represented Lotus Glen prisoner has won a ten year battle against the state, with compensation for assault for overly aggressive conduct by cor

Corporate high-flyers are rare protagonists in injury compensation brawls. So when Neil Balnaves sued after a 2002 head-on boat smash on a narrow bend

The lifestyle preference of a 32 yr-old travel industry sales manager not to “chase the highest income she can”, has counted against her in the assess

A hernia repair patient who claims to have been persuaded at the eleventh hour – “after she had been prepped for theatre” – to undergo a facelift in

Prior medical conditions and an arrest history were only some of the blots on a past that Keith Kilner needed to overcome to establish credibility

A 30-year-old welder injured by a toppling crane in 2004, pleaded mental incapacity as the excuse for a delay until 2010 to commence his compensation

A kindly aunt – battered and bruised after she lost her footing on paved suburban garden steps – has failed in her injury compensation bid after a cou

An Acacia Ridge manufacturer who argued its employee’s shop floor fall was fictional, has defeated a $160k damages claim for the hip injury said to ha

An inebriated football fan – who baulked at paying the cover charge for entry to an Underwood nightclub – has won $70,000 in damages for injuries rece

The insurer for an unidentified utility, unexpectedly stopped in the “slip lane”of the M1 Nerang-Broadbeach Rd exit, will pay $112k in injury comp

A final chapter in the resolution of the May 2005 Lockhart River air disaster unfolded in the Supreme Court in October when five Cape York families we

The criminal record of a tradesman injured at the “Promenade” construction site in Robina Town Centre in May 2009, sealed the fate of his $350k back i

The dockworkers at Brisbane’s Cairncross slipway were under some pressure to complete routine hull maintenance, during the Sun-Princess’ two-day d

The only description of a vehicle at fault for a motorcyclist brought down as he rounded a bend to join the Pacific Highway at Coomera was that is was

A self-employed cyclist sustained serious injuries when he crashed into the back of a taxi that suddenly pulled in front of him and stopped, on Airpor

The District Court last week ruled that Queensland’s Personal Injuries Proceedings Act pre-court requirements do not apply to international a

Prisoner John Coffey was rewarded just prior to Christmas, with the Court of Appeal upping the damages the State must pay him as a result of over-aggr

Today is one of fond remembrance for the citizens of Brisbane’s northern bayside of their favourite adopted sons, the Bee Gees, in whose honour a br

The presentation is familiar enough. A labourer feels a twinge deep in his back after a heavy or awkward lift or pull but rather than report it, decid

A restaurant patron injured when his chair collapsed mid-meal in January 2009, was last week stripped of the right to sue Toowoomba’s legendary Weis

The extent of injury to a Mackay medical receptionist whose Holden Astra was wiped out by an oncoming vehicle that turned right through an intersectio

During the course of a statutory compensation process for a tennis elbow injury arising in the course of host employment over a period of six months i

Woolworths took no umbrage at a compensation claim arising out of the conduct of the butchery at its Ayr supermarket until it was made clear that the

The Court of Appeal today reversed a judgment that last year saw a South Australian tourist fail in a lawsuit against Bonapartes Serviced Apartments i

A 28-year-old first-year apprentice electrician who was “roughing in” power cables to a Palm Beach apartment building in June 2008 was following a

The Supreme Court has chided a plaintiff’s lawyers during a seven-day personal injury trial, for “deliberately not obtaining a signed statement” f

As leisure cruising becomes a major segment of the Australian travel market with 53 cruise ships having a daily passenger capacity of 54,000 souls ply

A spinal injury compensation victory for an Irish tourist arising from an excursion to an inland Fraser Island lake in September 2007 is a subject of

Compensation damages to be paid by American nut conglomerate Hancock Agricultural have been reduced to fit the District Court jurisdictional limit a

The Brisbane City Council has failed in its Civil Liability Act bid to hold out a fitness rider from injury damages after he was thrown from his bike�

A claim for compensation that occupied the Brisbane District Court for five days has resulted in the claimant being judged as having “grossly exagge

A spinal injury compensation claim by a Brisbane function organiser for a fall at a Valley hotspot has failed on appeal.
Karen Dowling was

An underground coal miner whose back “exploded in pain” when hauling equipment along a mine tunnel has been awarded a fraction of the damages dem

In the first of three psychiatric injury decisions delivered in August – which speak to all the key elements of duty, foreseeability, causation and da

A self-represented wellness consultant – injured when passing by Santos House in Turbot St on her way to give evidence at the since decommissioned L

A council roadsign checker who sustained a disc injury in early 2006 as he slipped from a truck step while descending and fell to the road below, is t

A Sarina slaughterman who avoided the use of a protective steel mesh glove because it slowed his work rate, has secured substantial damages as a resu

The use of razor-sharp off-cuts as a workaround to protect electrical insulation during the construction of a Palm Beach condo development was a reaso

The tragedy occurred at picturesque Chinderah, about 1 km south of the Barney’s Point Bridge as the Tweed bends gently northwards for its last long

A photographer for The Age newspaper assigned to shoot an anniversary pictorial of Australian victims of the October 2012 Bali bombings, suffered post

Policies & procedures and examples set by superiors were central to a $1.4 million injury claim by a 28-year-old fabrication foreman injured in a

The Supreme Court has refused labourer damages for back injuries resulting from a stairwell bump that sent him tumbling down as many as 20 steps durin

A Court has ruled that a worker’s severe reading and comprehension disabilities sufficiently explained his 4 year delay in seeking legal advice about

The presence of metal cupboard handles beneath a collating desk created an obvious risk of a knee injury which his employer ought to have removed, acc

Wendy Grey sought legal advice in July 2011 for a possible common-law damages claim for cumulative workplace injuries that began as early as 2006 when

Lujpco Karanfilov was deployed alone at GE Money on Logan Rd, Stones Corner when he confronted two thugs menacing workers departing the premises at th

A motorcycle racing company has implored the Supreme Court to rigorously apply a federal “recreational services” antidote to protect its contractual l

A German backpacker who stayed close to his broken-down van after it rolled to a stop at night, in the middle of the busy Bruce Highway, should himsel

A Brisbane interior design company has been sued in Queensland’s District Court in connection with the unloading of its furniture consignment by a r

A repossession agent has sued a CTP insurer for injuries sustained during the recovery of a rental fridge as hostility escalated from verbal abuse to

Video surveillance of a machine operator who continued to wear a sling after being told by his treating doctors to discard it has produced mixed outco

Suncorp has successfully denied a seriously injured BHP mine manager – who Continue reading

A driver whose car was T-boned at a Rochedale intersection gave “less than satisfactory evidence” and was “less than forthcoming about her traff

A nurse undergoing aggressive behaviour training to assist in the management of violent patients has alleged her course leader should have taught hi

Queensland’s Court of Appeal has today dismissed a government appeal against an April 2013 ruling that holds it mostly at fault for the injuries susta

A former IT consultant turned real estate agent and would-be actor, delivered a less than convincing performance in a dramatic 3 day injury compensat

Angela Simmons’ worked as a kitchen hand at the Westside Tavern in Maryborough. In April 2010, she was cleaning a large metal drip tray from the gr

Queensland’s highest court has been asked to decide the essential elements of a de facto partnership and whether the male partner of a woman who died

A cattle station overseer has sued Robinson Helicopters of California in Brisbane’s Supreme Court over an alleged maintenance system defect in its R

Bullying by an inexperienced supervisor of an assistant manager, over just 11 days at “Sussan” in Cairns, has resulted in a psychiatric injury so

Darren Verney had already borrowed 20 full loads of blue metal crusher dust from a stockpile to a boxed section of the pathway under construction some

A long-running feud among neighbours in an idyllic waterfront hamlet has ended after four months in court, with one set of protagonists ordered to pay

When the balustrade on the first floor of Peter Richardson’s home gave way and sent him crashing down onto the floor of his foyer in 2006, the damag

A student pilot whose instructor responded to an in-flight engine failure by gliding the aircraft to a landing in a gully, has appealed a court decisi

A local council and a road build contractor have been ordered to pay injury compensation as a result of a motorcyclist losing control on loose stones

A mining construction supervisor who crashed a mobile crane he had commandeered for weekend work at his own rural property, has claimed his employer m

A graduate mine engineer has defeated a questionable limitation strategy adopted by the world’s biggest miner to deny him compensation rights arisin

The “significant downturn” in Queensland mining that took hold in mid-2012 lasted just 9 months, according to evidence heard by a Rockhampton cour

A court has found McDonald’s safety practices to be lacking and customers exposed to injury hazards when cleaning protocols were allowed to be shirk

Steven Tinworth was heading south in heavy rain along the Cuningham Highway on 10 January 2011 about 50 km to the east of where – just a few hours lat

Corrugations formed by frequent traffic on unsealed roads are a part of daily life in rural Australia.
The agriculturally rich Liverpool P

From 1 July, a compensation regime which imposes Civil Liability Laws on Queensland workers comes into effect. At the same time, the Civil Liability L

In May, the Supreme Court * ruled on whether a pedestrian injured in Queensland as a result of the operation of the mechanical arm of a refuse truck w

The husband of a driver killed in an August 2004 country road single-vehicle accident has sued the local council for council negligence by failing to

As terror hysteria – fuelled for all its worth by media and politicians – grips the nation, a Supreme Court judge has issued a terse rebuke of the mis

After reversing his car into a level two space of a hotel car park, Thomas Lee and his wife Michelle – on their way to dinner at a nearby restaurant –

Part of the work of a roulette dealer is to gather chips used by gamblers and sort them into stacks by colour.
In 2004, Lidija Romig was a

It was a perfect Sunday in June 2008 when the pair sped from Scarborough across the calm waters of the bay, for a morning of spearfishing at Cape More

Indemnity payments from labour-hire organisations to industry clients will be put under the spotlight as a result of a Queensland court ruling publish

The baby’s mother had purchased a gel pack which she used to treat a burn to his hand in 2008.
In her momentary absence, four-year-old J

Council worker Osman Bakhit was moving temporary-fencing base slabs at Ascot’s Bartleys Hill Reservoir when he ruptured a disc in his back in 2011.<

The tranquil Clarence River was the setting of an alcohol-fuelled rampage that felled 32-year-old Luke Warren in the late hours of an August Friday ni

Hardware giant Bunnings has been ordered to part with $700k after an appeal court ruled against its refusal to pay compensation to a staff member who

Shipping giant Carnival Cruises has lost a court bid to prevent substantial damages being awarded to a cruise passenger for injuries as a result of pa

A 12-year-old child survived an accident that killed her cousin when an out-of-control car mounted a kerb of the footpath on which they were strolling

A bicycle rider who was sprung from his cleats and thrown over his handlebars to bounce once before landing on his back in Boundary Street West End wa

The loss by police of CCTV footage of the ejection of a patron from a Gladstone hotel was critical to a dispute over whether the pub should pay its cu

As elegant as are the ships of their fleet, ferries that ply the waters of Sydney Harbour are responsible for their fair share of maritime mishaps.

When an extraction unit at Boral’s Coffs Harbour asphalt plant failed in June 2006, it called in a crane crew to provide a safe platform for its mai

A town planner responsible for managing landside infrastructure planning at Brisbane’s ever-expanding Kingsford Smith airport has defeated insurer S

A call centre trainee – who came within an inch of being hurled from a fourth-floor balcony by another inductee – has argued his employer bore respons

A senior manager and three administration officers employed at a Disability Services Queensland (DSQ) regional office have sued for over $2 million fo

Nancy Mules consulted GP Kaylene Ferguson about neck pain on four occasions in September 2008.
On her fourth visit on 25 September, Ferg

In September 2007, a 14 yr retired police officer – now security officer – was assaulted while on duty at a wedding reception at the Victoria Point S

A “badly written” account of the goings-on at an imaginary Queensland junior school is alleged to have been based on real dramas in the private li

A Townsville outboard motor repair shop has been held liable for income loss sustained by a customer as a result of severe injuries caused by its work

A bicycle, a tip truck, a utility and a motorcycle were proceeding in line, south along a flat straight stretch of Jacobs Well-Stapylton Road in April

An appeal court has ruled in favour of a bystander who came to the help of a five-year-old boy who got stranded on top of playground equipment in a Mc

A CTP insurer’s notification – following the lodgment of a compliant Notice of Claim – that it will meet reasonable motor accident rehabilitation ex

The logistical and linguistic hurdles of having to bring holiday injury claims in a foreign jurisdiction can often outweigh their benefit.

Liam Sch

A Rockhampton compensation claimant has convinced a court his degenerative disc condition – commonly thought to be age-related – was as a direct r

A three-month stint of fast-paced repetitive copying, collating, hole-punching and binding of thousands of papers to compile training manuals for cust

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

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

Detective Thomas’ intense animosity towards Rosanne Beckett dated from 1983 when her Taree delicatessen erupted in flames.

Beckett sue

A further chapter in the extraordinary consequences flowing from the violent death of Cameron Doomadgee at the Palm Island police compound in November

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

A South Australian solicitor injured in a jet ski accident

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

A 36-year-old cold store employee with extensive experience in the operation of Reach forklifts – where the driver sits sideways to improve control

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

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�

Professionals on “fee splitting” arrangements that specify them to be independent contractors rather than employees, are nevertheless likely to be

A pedestrian who ran the gauntlet amid stop-start traffic on Brisbane’s Adelaide Street has sued the driver of the BCC bus that struck her just short

The mother of a young man injured in a motor accident in February 2012 obtained rulings from the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal that he

The 60-year-old carpenter had done manual labour all his working life. The last nine years – until March 2015 – were with the Fraser Coast Regional Co

A cement-truck driver who sustained serious spinal injuries when his head struck the roof of the cab as it traversed a rocky portion of a decline at a

Did a Friday afternoon phone discussion between two injury lawyers before a Monday trial to canvass a potential settlement   – with one already at h

An employer who fought all the way to prevent an appliance repairer getting Workers’ Compensation for injuries received from a mining camp assault h

A real estate agent litigating his own claim against Suncorp has told the Queensland Supreme Court that he was “a bit confused” when he updated hi

Jane Farnham used her own car to get from her home to the many locations she was required to visit in her role as “community visitor” for Queensla

A CTP insurer has been ordered to pay substantial injury damages to a pot smoker whose de-motivational habit led to him quit a promising public servic

A car that reversed into a Toyota Corolla at a petrol bowser was travelling so slowly the impact barely turned its wheels “half a rotation” but jo

Paul McGreevy started his March 2012 shift at the Cannon Hill abattoir about 5:30 am. By 7:00 am there was a back up of carcasses along the automated

A pizza delivery driver assaulted when locking up a Deception Bay restaurant has sued Domino’s Pizza for failing to provide adequate staff security.

A freak accident resulting in a serious injury to an army private during a ski run on the Ross River in Townsville has been litigated in the ACT Sup

A festival goer suffered a brain injury when stage lighting collapsed onto her tent on New Year’s Day in January 2008 has sued the Queensland Folk F

Blood and horror overtook Clive Silwood’s Clontarf home in the minutes that followed the calamity at his front door.

His visitor’s f

Queensland’s Transport Department withheld highway skid resistance and traffic crash records for a section of the Bruce Highway on which it failed t

A 30-yr-old Korean student who operated his own business during the maximum 20 hrs/week he was permitted by his visa to work, has received $355k in co

A CTP insurer’s failure to “put its own house in order” in readying a case for trial has put paid to a bid to strike out for delay, an injury co

A nursing home administration assistant has won a long-running compensation battle against the TriCare organisation for persistent “ Continue reading

A local authority that received numerous complaints of water leaking over a sidewalk and causing several pedestrians falls has claimed it had no respo

A bowel cancer patient on the public list at Rockhampton hospital has battled objections to the delay in start of injury compensation proceedings caus

In May 2013 Mitch Skiboux signed off his QF15 duties at LAX and took a transfer with other crew to the Hilton Costa Mesa for their 2 day lay over. distribution centre has defeated his e

Like many organisations, the state peak body for child care professionals – the Family Day Care Association of Queensland – holds a biennia

An alleged gang associate – giving evidence via video link from Germany after the cancellation of his visa prevented his return to Australia – has tod

The story begins with a “quite intoxicated” Thomas Hamilton returning with two others to one of the partygoer’s apartments in Sydney’s Rocks dis

The BP Chinderah roadhouse is a welcome landmark for those driving South to the Tweed Coast as it signals they are approaching their destination and f

Lamb Island – population 450 – in southern Moreton Bay is officially a “town” within the Redland City.

In emergencies, an ambulance

Geoff Barker had “probably about 7 rums” in a Port Moresby bar before arrival at the airport to board the Air Niugini flight PX025 to Brisbane in

The family’s overnight stay at the Gympie Motel in February 1998 was unscheduled.

Their car overheated on the trip from Bundaberg to B

An experienced pilot whose helicopter crashed after being caught in cloud in the PNG highlands – contrary to the air rules under which the flight was

It took more than 3 years for Toni Birch to manifest serious anxiety and depression after witnessing a head-on highway collision, that by then prevent

A Brisbane Lions development coach has won a major victory against WorkCover for all claimants over the delivery of noncomplying notices of claim for

A misstep on stairs rarely results in compensation because it is a function of the person using them rather than of the stairs themselves.

The four boys were glad to find keys in the ignition before rolling the Toyota Hilux ute quietly down the driveway to avoid waking its owners in the T

A “hard-working” hire car worker has been rendered unemployable from the psychological decompensation that followed a seat-pocket needle stick inj

It’s a familiar enough puzzle. A driver turning across oncoming traffic claims never to have seen the oncoming vehicle.

The other clai

Matthew Dornan negotiated his employment contract with PNG labour-hire company Pacific Manpower Ltd over four months while he was working in Queenslan

An alleged affiliate of notorious Brisbane motorcycle gang members must do battle for a second time to gain compensation from the driver whose careles

Can a person whose unsafe premises causes an injury, be held responsible for the consequences of a further accident sustained by their victim as a res

Soapbox preachers “moved on” by police from a street corner in Nambour in September 2013 have claimed $120k for wrongful arrest and unlawful impri

A bus driver who “exaggerated” the force of a traffic accident and the extent of her injuries has been awarded substantial damages by a Brisbane court

A week after the July 2015 motor accident in Padstow Road, Eight Mile Plains, Jay Thuong saw his GP for treatment of the gradual onset of neck and sho

A central Queensland colliery has argued that underground miners employed by a third party in its mineshafts were – to avoid injury liability – spec

A hard-working aged care nurse who failed to mention her work injury – on any of her many post-accident visits – until two years after the event, has

Recent overseas air crashes involving Australians are tragic reminders of the importance of booking every leg of an international journey – especially

Courts in Queensland and New South Wales have recently ruled on the liability of personal trainers for injuries sustained by their clients.

A millworker injured at a plant operated by the Mackay Sugar co-operative has sued the organisation for an injury sustained in September 1994 for whic