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Case notes tagged “damages”.
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- Litigation & law practice
Food people just too fresh: court checks out assessment manipulation at damages gateway
Woolworths took no umbrage at a compensation claim arising out of the conduct of the butchery at its Ayr supermarket until it was made clear that the event for which damages were being sought was exposure to working practices…
- 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
Appeal court ups damages to mark disapproval of prisoner treatment
Prisoner John Coffey was rewarded just prior to Christmas, with the Court of Appeal upping the damages the State must pay him as a result of over-aggressive prison treatment more than 10 years earlier.
- 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
Concrete truck for sure, but which one at fault in slurry spill?
The only description of a vehicle at fault for a motorcyclist brought down as he rounded a bend to join the Pacific Highway at Coomera was that is was a big cement truck.
- Litigation & law practice
‘Gun’ tiler outnumbered, jail time too high an obstacle to win
The criminal record of a tradesman injured at the "Promenade" construction site in Robina Town Centre in May 2009, sealed the fate of his $350k back injury compensation claim made against conflicting evidence of how it occurred.
- Litigation & law practice
Wharfie put to ‘back-breaking’ work, employer not liable for back break
The dockworkers at Brisbane’s Cairncross slipway were under some pressure to complete routine hull maintenance, during the Sun-Princess’ two-day docking there in August 2009 in preparation for its next Pacific Ocean cruise.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
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