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Case notes tagged “injury compensation”.
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- 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
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
New cruise ship injury laws on horizon: "Grandeur" set ablaze
As leisure cruising becomes a major segment of the Australian travel market with 53 cruise ships having a daily passenger capacity of 54,000 souls plying Australian waters and visiting 31 ports this year, a timely reminder of the…
Dancer in self-represented CTP win after drunk Story Bridge bike stack
A late-night reveller was the victim of her own ill-judgment when she accepted a ride on the back of a motor-cycle from Brisbane's Sofitel lobby bar before being spilled onto the bitumen at the southbound entrance to Brisbane’s…
- Litigation & law practice
Employer defeats $300k claim, not liable for employee’s "own carelessness"
A 28-year-old first-year apprentice electrician who was “roughing in” power cables to a Palm Beach apartment building in June 2008 was following a workaround procedure to prevent the cables being forced up against sharp framing…
- 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…
- 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…
- Litigation & law practice
Court raps WorkCover over "offensive" point taking in psych injury assessment
During the course of a statutory compensation process for a tennis elbow injury arising in the course of host employment over a period of six months in 2007 at Vinidex on Townsville's outskirts, WorkCover personnel surmised…
- 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
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
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.
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