27 May 6402 Views Personal Injury Fall from cliff top at night to beach below not of council’s doing A long weekend beach getaway to celebrate the 40th birthdays of two of the merrymakers ended in tragedy at Stradbroke Island’s Point Look Continue reading
28 May 9922 Views Personal Injury Claimant sues specialist over “conspiratorial, shambolic” medical report A former Brisbane airport baggage inspector who contested his dismissal by the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service, has sued a forensic psychiatr Continue reading
29 May 5294 Views Personal Injury Sex accusation by Txt brings $100k defamation ask The brother of two women with whom he was accused in Txts sent in March 2014 of engaging in consensual and non-consensual sex, has sued the sender fo Continue reading
25 June 3556 Views Personal Injury High speed country road gravel smash nets downed rider $615k When Mark James set off on his motorcycle on a sunny Sunday morning in November 2011 for Gladstone, he had no idea that a few hours hence his life wou Continue reading
26 June 3697 Views Personal Injury From killing field to slaughter house: refugee worker in abattoir compo win An Afghan refugee employed as a labourer on the process line at a Teys Bros meatworks has been compelled to seek court orders to permit his safety con Continue reading
27 June 6029 Views Personal Injury ‘That’s not a knife’: accidental stabbing not employer’s fault An earthmoving contractor has been sued for a stabbing wound from the owner’s son to a co-worker at a Redbank Plains construction site during a lunc Continue reading
28 June 5232 Views Personal Injury Reticence to report a potential roadblock to Rio worker’s injury recovery A shift-work fitter made no mention until months later of injuring his back doing heavy work usually reserved for a crane, because it wasn’t unusual Continue reading
29 June 4641 Views Personal Injury Woolies pinged on “unlawful” hold out to injured worker’s $750k lawsuit A night-filler who injured his back from continuous awkward motions required of his role over the entire period of employment has succeeded in strikin Continue reading
29 June 4263 Views Personal Injury Good Friday "Christmas" party a Noosa River tragedy The husband of a woman tragically killed when diving from the beach at Noosa Woods into the river on a Good Friday “Christmas” party has failed in Continue reading
29 June 6970 Views Personal Injury Telstra on hook for $16 mil helicopter wire-strike injury In April 2006 two Endeavour Energy employees were conducting an aerial inspection of power lines and poles near Wiseman’s Ferry north of Sydney in a Continue reading
30 July 6286 Views Personal Injury Psychiatric damages big part of $1 mil award when family told of air crash death The spouse and children of a vegetation officer killed on the job with a regional shire council have won substantial post-traumatic stress damages for Continue reading
31 July 5775 Views Personal Injury Shower injury wins compo for around-the-clock worker A worker who slipped on the bathroom floor while rushing to answer his phone will receive injury compensation from his employer despite the acciden Continue reading
02 August 4543 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 6675 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 6890 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 4955 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 5858 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 5234 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 4170 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 4611 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
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