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brain injury
Case notes tagged “brain injury”.
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- Litigation & law practice
Visa barred bikie associate wins $156k crash damages by video link
An alleged gang associate - giving evidence via video link from Germany after the cancellation of his visa prevented his return to Australia - has today been awarded substantial damages for a brain injury sustained in a…
- Litigation & law practice
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 alterations to neurotransmitter chemicals and pathways, ie organic changes, can also result.
- Litigation & law practice
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 Suncorp's refusal to pay income replacement compensation for a brain injury…
- Litigation & law practice
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 night in 2009.
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