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Case notes tagged “damages”.
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Picture hiddenPsychological injuryNon-sexual childhood abuse claim gives $1.5 mil win
The NSW Supreme Court entered default judgment and awarded $1.478 million to Sonia Gibson after finding that childhood abuse by her father caused enduring psychiatric injury and economic loss.
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Picture hiddenAircraft accidentAirline liable for flight attendant’s injury after pulling sticky galley cart
The Supreme Court of Queensland awarded a former Alliance Airlines cabin manager $602,068.02 after finding the airline had not provided task-specific safe-work guidance for moving resistant catering carts from aircraft galley…
- Litigation & law practice
Palm Island pair win violent arrest damages, police ‘shock & awe’ raid unlawful
A further chapter in the extraordinary consequences flowing from the violent death of Cameron Doomadgee at the Palm Island police compound in November 2004 has closed after the state’s highest court awarded substantial…
- Litigation & law practice
Moreton Island boat too close, too fast: run-down diver wins $675k
It was a perfect Sunday in June 2008 when the pair sped from Scarborough across the calm waters of the bay, for a morning of spearfishing at Cape Moreton.
- Litigation & law practice
Bonfire horror engulfs 5, damages bill may exceed $1 mil
The full financial consequences of youthful exuberance have begun to emerge for a Stanthorpe man whose carelessness seriously injured five party guests, changing their lives forever.
- Litigation & law practice
Deficient tools decide damages demand for "poor historian", wins $680k
A history of deficient tools failing on the job and unresolved safety complaints helped a worker prove his employer caused his back injury.
- 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
Masseuse exposed by clumsy detective’s brazen DVD capture
A claim for compensation that occupied the Brisbane District Court for five days has resulted in the claimant being judged as having “grossly exaggerated” her injuries.
- Litigation & law practice
Cycling not inherently dangerous: rider defeats council on Shorncliffe roadworks wreck
The Brisbane City Council has failed in its Civil Liability Act bid to hold out a fitness rider from injury damages after he was thrown from his bike on encountering unfinished bitumen resurfacing on a suburban bayside…
- Litigation & law practice
Court choice forces lower damages payout for injured farm labourer
Compensation damages to be paid by American nut conglomerate Hancock Agricultural have been reduced to fit the District Court jurisdictional limit after the court ruled it could not award the full sum assessed arising from the…
- Litigation & law practice
Guest up $500k on appeal for "filthy" hotel needle stick injury
The Court of Appeal today reversed a judgment that last year saw a South Australian tourist fail in a lawsuit against Bonapartes Serviced Apartments in Spring Hill in which she claimed damages as a result of her hand being…
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