Psychological injury
Psychological injury
Case notes on claims for psychiatric and psychological injury, at work and elsewhere.
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Picture hiddenPsychological injuryTraumatised by SBS doco: caseworker wins $1.4 mil psych damages
The NSW Court of Appeal dismissed DCJ's appeal after a caseworker suffered psychiatric injury on watching a documentary segment about a former client.
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Picture hiddenPsychological injuryNon-sexual childhood abuse claim gives $1.5 mil win
The NSW Supreme Court entered default judgment and awarded $1.478 million to Sonia Gibson after finding that childhood abuse by her father caused enduring psychiatric injury and economic loss.
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Passers-by not owed duty from suicide
At around 2:50 pm on Thursday in May 2014, Amy Mallet attempted suicide by driving her car into a power pole at a suburban intersection in Heathmont, Melbourne.
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Picture hiddenPsychological injuryDV assailant waives spouse’s claim limitation defence from his cell
Claims against assailants for injury compensation damages from domestic violence events are on the rise.
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Picture hiddenPsychological injuryWithout warning: emotional worker sues for demotion hurt
When can the circumstances of performance counselling lead to a successful injury compensation claim if the worker sues?
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Picture hiddenPsychological injuryEmployer directly liable for supervisor’s gut punch to junior staffer
A court has ruled Queensland Corrective Services vicariously liable for injury compensation from a supervisor's gut punch to a Woodford Correctional Officer because it was a bad method of staff management.
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Picture hiddenPsychological injuryWCQ whipped on compliance ask for NOCD particulars of negligence
Are "high level" allegations - without particulars of the components of alleged negligence and causation pertaining to an injury - sufficient to meet the requirements of a compliant workplace injury Notice of Claim for Damages?
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Wrongful imprisonment at roadside; police fail on Nuremberg defence
Richard Walker had driven from his home in Darra to the Sunshine Coast hospital to meet with the palliative care team to discuss his father’s rapidly declining health.
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Precautions required “from the moment she started the job”: $435k psych injury win
The High Court has rejected the contention that an employer enjoys immunity from liability for adverse health and safety outcomes to personnel who voluntarily sign up to do high-risk jobs.
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Officer wins $860k for police failure to review mental health prior to return to duty
An appeal court has upped the damages police must pay an officer for deploying her back to general duties after the onset of multiple non-work related traumas where there was a failure to review mental health.
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“Torrent of abuse” hurled at vulnerable worker: QIRC allows animal control psych claim
A vulnerable worker has rolled a workers' compensation provider on its rejection of her statutory psychological injury claim arising out of daily abuse received from the customers she was required to deal with in the animal…
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Federal Court tops up injury damages with Fair Work compensation
How can an employee who suffers psychological injury from bullying and harassment recover Fair Work compensation as well as injury damages?
Case notes explain decisions in other people’s cases. They are general information, not legal advice, and every claim turns on its own facts.
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