27 July 5075 Views Personal Injury Prisoner wins ‘battery’ damages for over-the-top DNA sampling 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 Continue reading
31 July 15037 Views Law practice River boat accident yields small compensation pickings for boardroom mogul 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 Continue reading
19 August 9145 Views Personal Injury Facebook posts and life-quality choice diminish ‘Indiana Jones’ head-on injury deficit claim 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 Continue reading
30 August 4777 Views Personal Injury Patient strikes out on $1 mil make-over lawsuit: DIY claim ‘replete’ with errors 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 Continue reading
27 September 5136 Views Personal Injury Suspicion of undeclared work no bar to $400k win for long suffering kiwi 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 Continue reading
26 September 4415 Views Personal Injury Serial claimant’s ‘mildly mental’ plea to stop compensation clock 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 Continue reading
28 October 5415 Views Personal Injury Living green: homeowners’ hazard prevention does not require pruning overgrown habitat 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 Continue reading
29 October 9595 Views Personal Injury Crown puts down ‘unconvincing’ employee in factory floor rumble 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 Continue reading
29 October 7454 Views Personal Injury Hailers at peril with traffic stopping moves 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 Continue reading
30 October 16290 Views Personal Injury Trucker beats suspicion in Nerang crash injury win 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 Continue reading
30 October 5916 Views Personal Injury Lockhart families win catch value: damages capped by out-of-date limits 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 Continue reading
01 December 7556 Views Personal Injury ‘Gun’ tiler outnumbered, jail time too high an obstacle to win 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 Continue reading
30 November 5188 Views Personal Injury Wharfie put to ‘back-breaking’ work, employer not liable for back break The dockworkers at Brisbane’s Cairncross slipway were under some pressure to complete routine hull maintenance, during the Sun-Princess’ two-day d Continue reading
03 December 5496 Views Personal Injury Concrete truck for sure, but which one at fault in slurry spill? 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 Continue reading
29 December 15228 Views Personal Injury Expert roll call for airport cycle smash 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 Continue reading
28 December 23072 Views Personal Injury Messy claim unearths gems for future air passenger injury arguments The District Court last week ruled that Queensland's Personal Injuries Proceedings Act pre-court requirements do not apply to international a Continue reading
26 January 4217 Views Personal Injury Appeal court ups damages to mark disapproval of prisoner treatment 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 Continue reading
14 February 37727 Views Personal Injury Redcliffe’s many favourite sons: city’s role in "snail in the bottle" story 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 Continue reading
19 February 5023 Views Personal Injury ‘Puzzling’ plaintiff paints confusing picture, sinks claim 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 Continue reading
20 February 83304 Views Personal Injury Patron falls flat on buffet claim 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 Continue reading
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