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Case notes tagged “injury compensation”.
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- Litigation & law practice
Suncorp steers by sirens’ song: Classy clipper cuts $500k cheque
Claimants’ medical records can so preoccupy an insurer that they become powerless to resist: like mythical seamen lured on to the rocks by enchanting mermaids.
- Litigation & law practice
Pac-Fair slurpee fall: plaintiff proves cleaning rotation missed, concealing prior injury excused
Eve Lowe’s tumble on the floor surface remains of a red Slushee outside the Australia Post store at Pacific Fair Shopping Centre – while calamitous for her wellbeing – provides an instructive tutorial on the necessary ingredients…
- Litigation & law practice
Road rage traffic dodger collected on Logan Rd: driver targets home insurer for $660k foot chase death
On 27 August 2004, Karla Kalimnios was driving home along Logan Road Upper Mount Gravatt in peak hour evening traffic when knife-wielding Jason Ewen – who had gone on foot to retaliate against another driver - ran into the path…
- Litigation & law practice
Ambitious sign cutter wins husband but court sees red over injury income pretence
Insurer suspicions about the veracity of Gympie girl Tenille Rossi's account of the extent to which she was impaired by her September 2003 motor accident injuries were resoundingly vindicated last month after a three day Supreme…
- Litigation & law practice
Allianz a slave to doomed appeal strategy: accident injuries confirmed genuine
Bitter as they were over the trouncing of their case that mill worker Robert Girone had fabricated his motor accident injury symptoms, Allianz took the case on appeal to resurrect the view of orthopaedic surgeon Dr Toft that his…
- Litigation & law practice
Court excuses car owner from $200k liability because parent there to make joyride call
After Christmas day lunch in 2005, 17-year-old learner driver Debbie-Jo Simpson got permission to take a farm vehicle for a drive with her brother Sam.
- Litigation & law practice
Claimants hold $350k on appeal: paper lift training needed, how to keep safe from assault
Appeal court battles - intimidating even the most experienced lawyer – can gain a sense of the surreal for plaintiffs who win a contested trial, only to have an insurer turn around to have a second crack at knocking out their…
- Litigation & law practice
Mill worker’s case crushed: Rejected statutory claim shuts gate on NOCD back injury damages
The crushing this month of a Mackay sugar mill worker’s common law damages claim for an over-period-of-time back injury illustrates well the potentially fatal consequences of how statutory compensation applications are completed…
- Legal profession
Paint tinter’s limitation loss shines light on rights information censorship
The recent Supreme Court failure of a worker's limitation extension application has highlighted once again how the statutory censorship regime that applies in Queensland to lawyer statements about personal injury claims, can…
- Legal profession
“Fobbed off” swim student overcomes solicitor’s neglect to scrape home on leave to proceed win
Despite no satisfactory explanation for a 3 year delay, a 26 yr old plaintiff was this month allowed to proceed with a negligent "schoolyard supervision" claim against the Kedron high school he attended in 2000.
- Litigation & law practice
Unpaid helper wins $250k for tree-lopping fall: damages to cushion labour market risk
A volunteer tree-trimmer has held a $250,000 damages verdict after the homeowner he offered to help failed to convince an appellate court that no duty of care was owed because the assistance given was unpaid.
- Litigation & law practice
Compensation claim outside 3 years: Plaintiffs escape time bar on "Battery"; do PIPA & CLA apply?
Three patrons who allege they were assaulted by police officer Adam Reedy at the Hotel Cunnamulla in May 2005 commenced proceedings for "general, aggravated and exemplary damages" for false imprisonment, assault and battery in…
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