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Case notes tagged “injury compensation”.
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- 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Lockhart families win catch value: damages capped by out-of-date limits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.
- Litigation & law practice
Living green: homeowners’ hazard prevention does not require pruning overgrown habitat
A kindly aunt - battered and bruised after she lost her footing on paved suburban garden steps - has failed in her injury compensation bid after a court decided “doing nothing” may sometimes be a reasonable response to a…
- Litigation & law practice
Suspicion of undeclared work no bar to $400k win for long suffering kiwi
Prior medical conditions and an arrest history were only some of the blots on a past that Keith Kilner needed to overcome to establish credibility in his motor accident damages ask before Brisbane's district court last month.
- Litigation & law practice
Serial claimant’s ‘mildly mental’ plea to stop compensation clock
A 30-year-old welder injured by a toppling crane in 2004, pleaded mental incapacity as the excuse for a delay until 2010 to commence his compensation lawsuit, contending that the 3 year limitation time clock must be stopped for…
- Litigation & law practice
Patient strikes out on $1 mil make-over lawsuit: DIY claim ‘replete’ with errors
A hernia repair patient who claims to have been persuaded at the eleventh hour – "after she had been prepped for theatre" - to undergo a facelift instead, has failed in her bid for compensation for a “sadly damaged face” that…
- Litigation & law practice
Facebook posts and life-quality choice diminish ‘Indiana Jones’ head-on injury deficit claim
The lifestyle preference of a 32 yr-old travel industry sales manager not to "chase the highest income she can", has counted against her in the assessment of accident-related income loss from a fatal December 2009 highway…
- Legal profession
River boat accident yields small compensation pickings for boardroom mogul
Corporate high-flyers are rare protagonists in injury compensation brawls.
- Litigation & law practice
Prisoner wins ‘battery’ damages for over-the-top DNA sampling
A self-represented Lotus Glen prisoner has won a ten year battle against the state, with compensation for assault for overly aggressive conduct by corrective service officers in forcing hair extraction, as part of a legislated…
- Litigation & law practice
Call girls faultless in city hotel room needle stick injury
A South Australian tourist has failed to cast “an aura of prostitution and drug use” over a Spring Hill apartment complex where her hand was impaled on a discarded hypodermic syringe.
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