15 April 5117 Views Personal Injury Deficient tools decide damages demand for "poor historian", wins $680k 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 Continue reading
24 May 6946 Views Personal Injury ‘Some controversies should never be litigated’: plaintiffs to pay $1 mil costs after rejecting $600k offer 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 Continue reading
25 May 5460 Views Personal Injury Mirvac nailed on railing, outsourcing no defence 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 Continue reading
26 May 7360 Views Personal Injury Is single-engine flying training a dangerous recreational activity? 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 Continue reading
26 May 6222 Views Personal Injury Motorcyclist sues for stones on road, wins $1.3 million 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 Continue reading
27 May 7684 Views Personal Injury Difficult-to-drive crane in out of control road crash, employer not liable 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 Continue reading
28 May 11193 Views Personal Injury BHP slammed on miner’s injury limitation block A graduate mine engineer has defeated a questionable limitation strategy adopted by the world’s biggest miner to deny him compensation rights arisin Continue reading
29 May 5979 Views Personal Injury Mining slump no bar to $865k boilermaker verdict, specialist’s opinion ‘inexplicable’ The “significant downturn” in Queensland mining that took hold in mid-2012 lasted just 9 months, according to evidence heard by a Rockhampton cour Continue reading
29 July 4514 Views Personal Injury Maccas safety suspect, chef fluffs $320k claim 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 Continue reading
21 September 5456 Views Personal Injury Airborne and out of control, how fast is safe on flooded highway? 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 Continue reading
23 September 5744 Views Personal Injury Nominal Defendant v Bacon: Head-on collision in dust cloud, Who’s at fault? Corrugations formed by frequent traffic on unsealed roads are a part of daily life in rural Australia. The agriculturally rich Liverpool P Continue reading
30 June 32259 Views Law practice WorkCover changes part of creeping eradication of individual rights 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 Continue reading
15 July 28048 Views Personal Injury Recovery of CTP compensation if injured by stationary vehicle? When? 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 Continue reading
25 September 6940 Views Personal Injury Council Negligence: Loose stones road death, ‘roadworks’ warning insufficient 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 Continue reading
26 September 6839 Views Law practice Terror hysteria aside, police powers already rival Gestapo says judge 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 Continue reading
30 October 4714 Views Personal Injury Council argues immunity on $2.9 mil car barrier civil liability lawsuit 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 - Continue reading
29 October 4352 Views Personal Injury Dealer in winning $200k hand 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 Continue reading
31 October 9711 Views Personal Injury Moreton Island boat too close, too fast: run-down diver wins $675k 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 Continue reading
14 November 6730 Views Personal Injury Labour hire group taps WorkCover to cover injury indemnity for co-liable host Indemnity payments from labour-hire organisations to industry clients will be put under the spotlight as a result of a Queensland court ruling publish Continue reading
22 November 4700 Views Personal Injury Toddler poisoned by ‘non-toxic’ heat pack gel, overseas supplier to pay $900k 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 Continue reading
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