Civil Aviation Carrier's Liability Act

• 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.

  4 August 2015
• Litigation & law practice

  Psychiatric damages big part of $1 mil award when family told of air crash death

  The spouse and children of a vegetation officer killed on the job with a regional shire council have won substantial post-traumatic stress damages for the way they were told of the air crash that took his life.

  30 July 2015
• Litigation & law practice

  Telstra on hook for $16 mil helicopter wire-strike injury

  In April 2006 two Endeavour Energy employees were conducting an aerial inspection of power lines and poles near Wiseman’s Ferry north of Sydney in a helicopter supplied – with crew – by Coff’s Harbour based Precision Helicopters.

  29 June 2015
• Litigation & law practice

  Lockhart families win catch value: damages capped by out-of-date limits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 were awarded dependency damages against the insurer of the now-defunct airline.

  30 October 2012
• Litigation & law practice

  Passenger’s injury claim grounded: Jetstar boarding injury no accident

  In May 2007 Bill Brannock was jetting off with a friend on a month's holiday from Brisbane to Adelaide.

  26 August 2010

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