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injury compensation
Case notes tagged “injury compensation”.
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- Litigation & law practice
Seriously injured driver moved to rear seat after impact?
A CTP insurer’s notification - following the lodgment of a compliant Notice of Claim - that it will meet reasonable motor accident rehabilitation expenses, is routine.
- Litigation & law practice
Injury date discrepancy no bar to valid NOCD, phoned in medical report “totally inadequate”
Council worker Osman Bakhit was moving temporary-fencing base slabs at Ascot’s Bartleys Hill Reservoir when he ruptured a disc in his back in 2011.
- Litigation & law practice
Labour hire group taps WorkCover to cover injury indemnity for co-liable host
Indemnity payments from labour-hire organisations to industry clients will be put under the spotlight as a result of a Queensland court ruling published this week.
- 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
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
WorkCover Claim: Wrist injury onset 18 years after fall, time bar a problem
A millworker injured at a plant operated by the Mackay Sugar co-operative has sued the organisation for an injury sustained in September 1994 for which no witnesses or incident report could be located to verify the fact that the…
- Litigation & law practice
Maccas safety suspect, chef fluffs $320k claim
A court has found McDonald’s safety practices to be lacking and customers exposed to injury hazards when cleaning protocols were allowed to be shirked.
- Litigation & law practice
Meat worker boned, inconsistencies and exaggeration sink claim
Coominya abattoir operator Green Mountain, has escaped liability for a back injury to an 18-yr-old boning room worker after a Brisbane judge ruled the labourer's evidence of how the injury occurred and the extent of his symptoms…
- Litigation & law practice
Judge overruled on anti-jogger decision
A judges' decision to refuse personal injury compensation to a jogger who collided with an SUV in suburban Kallangur has been ruled by three appeal judges, as illogical and unreasonable.
- 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
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
Patron neglects vehicle ID window in fast food drive-thru bump
The failure to even attempt to note the registration number of a vehicle, later claimed to be "unidentified", when clear opportunity existed was fatal to a claim for injuries against the Nominal Defendant.
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