loss of future earning capacity

• Litigation & law practice

  Student visa crash victim wins permanent residency income loss

  A 30-yr-old Korean student who operated his own business during the maximum 20 hrs/week he was permitted by his visa to work, has received $355k in compensation for a January 2014 motor accident despite his permission to stay in…

  30 May 2016
• Litigation & law practice

  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 McDonald’s restaurant.

  29 April 2015
• 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…

  26 February 2015
• Litigation & law practice

  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 was fortunate not to have been struck by other vehicles while writhing on the…

  17 January 2015
• Litigation & law practice

  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 in suburban Kuraby in September 2011.

  15 January 2015
• Litigation & law practice

  Qantas airport worker wins $225k, occupational physician ‘partisan’

  A Qantas baggage handler injured unloading a Boeing 767 aircraft at Cairns airport has won a $225k damages claim.

  29 June 2014

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