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future loss of earning capacity
Case notes tagged “future loss of earning capacity”.
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- Litigation & law practice
Disc degeneration proved trauma-induced but selfie-inflicted damage sinks eco loss claim
A Rockhampton compensation claimant has convinced a court his degenerative disc condition – commonly thought to be age-related – was as a direct result of a multi-vehicle collision on the Bruce Highway near Calliope in which he…
- Car accident
RACQ mines childhood social media posts to block $$ to Mackay 4WD accident victim
RACQ admitted fault on the part of its insured driver for a Mackay intersection accident in January 2008 but fiercely contested the amount of compensation that was fair to be paid under the CTP insurance policy to the injured…
- Litigation & law practice
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 part-time roulette dealer at Brisbane’s Treasury Casino.
- Litigation & law practice
Kitchen worker handed $530k, medical specialist "disavows" earlier report
Kitchen worker wins $530k injury compensation for hand sliced apart after medical therapist "disavows" previous unfavourable opinion based on a misunderstanding of hand surgeon's report.
- Litigation & law practice
Insurer on attack over $700k/yr mine manager’s income loss claim
Stoic claimant who "found a way to cope" awarded less future income loss damages because he was "determined" and optimistic that his serious injuries would not impede his work career.
- Litigation & law practice
Staff instruction crucial to nightclub assault defence: when is “do as I say” enough?
Policies & procedures and examples set by superiors were central to a $1.4 million injury claim by a 28-year-old fabrication foreman injured in a brawl that boiled over onto the footpath outside a Broadbeach nightclub.
Dancer in self-represented CTP win after drunk Story Bridge bike stack
A late-night reveller was the victim of her own ill-judgment when she accepted a ride on the back of a motor-cycle from Brisbane's Sofitel lobby bar before being spilled onto the bitumen at the southbound entrance to Brisbane’s…
- Personal injury
‘Good day, bad day’ strategy trumps peeping tom video
The extent of injury to a Mackay medical receptionist whose Holden Astra was wiped out by an oncoming vehicle that turned right through an intersection across her path in May 2010, was clouded by secret video footage that showed…
- Litigation & law practice
‘Puzzling’ plaintiff paints confusing picture, sinks claim
The presentation is familiar enough. A labourer feels a twinge deep in his back after a heavy or awkward lift or pull but rather than report it, decides to takes it easy until end of his shift.
- Litigation & law practice
Expert roll call for airport cycle smash
A self-employed cyclist sustained serious injuries when he crashed into the back of a taxi that suddenly pulled in front of him and stopped, on Airport Drive in Brisbane in July 2007.
- Litigation & law practice
Trucker beats suspicion in Nerang crash injury win
The insurer for an unidentified utility, unexpectedly stopped in the “slip lane”of the M1 Nerang-Broadbeach Rd exit, will pay $112k in injury compensation damages for a swerve-to-avoid accident in which a semi-trailer collided…
- Litigation & law practice
Hailers at peril with traffic stopping moves
An inebriated football fan - who baulked at paying the cover charge for entry to an Underwood nightclub - has won $70,000 in damages for injuries received when struck by a maxi-cab he had attempted to stop outside the venue in…
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