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Case notes tagged “injury compensation”.
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- Litigation & law practice
Small step for one man, a giant leap from rigs and their kind
It turns out that alighting from truck cabs and earthmoving machinery is indeed a hazardous affair, the subject of well-documented research and its own body of science.
- Litigation & law practice
Golf pro’s prang: prize money dictates ‘paltry’ earnings loss
Outstanding deeds from elite athletes demand all their ducks rowed neatly and just a feather out of place can ruin a performance or even a promising career.
- Litigation & law practice
Benevolent Bunnings
A "technologically dumb" store clerk injured in a company-sponsored game of tunnel ball in August 2008, has been awarded $270,000 personal injury compensation following a two-day trial in Brisbane.
- Litigation & law practice
Likely lad creates hostel havoc: Civil Liability Act no bar to "battery" suit
An aggressive 24 yr old British tourist injured during an arrest in the Roma St backpacker precinct has recorded a compensation win against the employer of an over zealous security guard but was penalised in damages for his "poor…
- Litigation & law practice
Suncorp smashed on time barrier in motorway flying debris suit
As Vanessa Morris was calmly driving along the Logan motorway, building materials and engine parts began raining on her car, as if from nowhere. She lost control and careered her car into the concrete motorway barriers.
- Litigation & law practice
Building owners escape responsibility on CBD glass shatter claim
The owners of one of Brisbane’s oldest high-rise office towers have escaped liability for facial scarring suffered by an intoxicated 29-year-old who fell through a sub-standard glass panel at her workplace building entry when…
- Litigation & law practice
Woolies check out clanger cashes out customer & changes food fall floor claims forever
Retail duopolist Woolworths was last week ordered by Australia’s High Court to let go the $580,000 injury compensation damages ruled owing in August 2009 to Taree invalid Kathryn Strong.
- Litigation & law practice
Irish brogue scores change to amazing rotten luck
A visiting overseas plumber serving out visa-mandated farm duties at a Mungindi cotton gin has been awarded $567,000 injury compensation damages after the court rejected an orthopaedic surgeon’s “blunt” and “unreasonable” views.
- Sexual abuse
Exemplary damages for sexual abuse and trespass: when can you get them?
Recent claims for trespass, battery relating to sexual abuse and wrongful imprisonment well illustrate the discretionary issues to be weighed in awards for exotic damages and demonstrate how the CLA and PIPA do not apply to suits…
- Litigation & law practice
Glaring errors absent in remote rest-stop trip damages payout
It took two trials and as many appeals before three judges, last week finally put Sonia Littlejohn's bitterly contested compensation award against the Julia Creek Town & Country Club beyond further dispute.
- Litigation & law practice
Suspicious minds fuel desperate defence: "continuum of symptoms" routs bank beat up
A "big four" bank was last week ordered to halt its refusal of injury compensation to a Gladstone customer server who fell to the floor when the back of a service centre chair collapsed in December 2006.
- Litigation & law practice
Sidewalk straddler smacked: $124k for pedestrian wing mirror blow
The Supreme Court this month ruled that pedestrians have every right to stroll on a roadway surface, awarding compensation to a Rockhampton teenager who had been swiped by the wing mirror of a passing van.
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