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pre-existing injury
Case notes tagged “pre-existing injury”.
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- Litigation & law practice
Facebook brings Woodford brain injury claimant crashing back to earth
A festival goer suffered a brain injury when stage lighting collapsed onto her tent on New Year’s Day in January 2008 has sued the Queensland Folk Federation and the Woodford Festival organisation in the Brisbane District Court.
- 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.
- Litigation & law practice
Crown puts down ‘unconvincing’ employee in factory floor rumble
An Acacia Ridge manufacturer who argued its employee's shop floor fall was fictional, has defeated a $160k damages claim for the hip injury said to have happened as a result.
- Litigation & law practice
Suspicious minds fuel desperate defence: "continuum of symptoms" routs bank beat up
A "big four" bank was last week ordered to halt its refusal of injury compensation to a Gladstone customer server who fell to the floor when the back of a service centre chair collapsed in December 2006.
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