27 November

4709 Views

Personal Injury

Injury date discrepancy no bar to valid NOCD, phoned in medical report “totally inadequate”

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.<

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28 November

4658 Views

Personal Injury

Court awards $1.7 mil for services club brain injury assault

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

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14 January

8205 Views

Personal Injury

Dung dust illness not just coincidence, Bunnings to pay $700k in worker lawsuit

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

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16 January

7358 Views

Personal Injury

Accident at sea: Carnival slammed on cruise injury lawsuit

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

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15 January

3949 Views

Personal Injury

Lifetime future earnings damages for child witness to horror road death

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

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17 January

4848 Views

Personal Injury

Dual career triathelete poses income loss quandry

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

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19 February

5571 Views

Personal Injury

Police lose video evidence, inebriated tradie stumbles on $300k hotel payout

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

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20 February

5501 Views

Personal Injury

‘Inattentive’ ferryman paid: Ferry Co to splash out $1 mil for sill(y) error

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.

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25 February

4692 Views

Personal Injury

Experts clash on crane crash cause, worker’s case collapses

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

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26 February

5898 Views

Personal Injury

Court orders Suncorp to pay up on airport worker’s $1.3 mil brain injury

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

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25 March

4001 Views

Personal Injury

Call centre trainee viciously attacked, Optus baulks at $3.8 mil labour hire compo

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

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28 March

5808 Views

Personal Injury

Employer in $2 mil battle over resolution of hostile co-worker complaints

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

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29 March

5831 Views

Personal Injury

Blinded patient sues GP, Appeal court orders $6.7 mil for 3 day treatment delay

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

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30 March

4464 Views

Personal Injury

Single security guard assaulted on wedding duty by drunk guest, sues venue

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

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25 April

4855 Views

Personal Injury

A literary offence: teacher sues school over author’s account of heroine’s sex life

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

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26 April

6079 Views

Personal Injury

Boat fire pastor stays on full pay but duty to re-pay church helps in $700k win

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

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27 April

3929 Views

Personal Injury

Competing drivers’ duties: heavy weaving vehicle v. "follower" with chance to evade hazard

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

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29 April

5182 Views

Personal Injury

Appeal judges order Maccas must pay out to playground rescue hero

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

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25 May

4424 Views

Personal Injury

Seriously injured driver moved to rear seat after impact?

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

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26 May

4806 Views

Personal Injury

Doctor in local lawsuit for Bangkok culinary calamity

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

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