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Case notes tagged “injury compensation”.
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- Litigation & law practice
The law of roundabouts explained by Court of Appeal
The vexed question of who has to do what on traffic roundabouts came before the highest court of the state last week by way of an appeal by Suncorp concerning peak hour comings and goings in a Mackay suburb.
- Legal profession
Broken neck from dive into Fitzroy River: "high" risk known to council
The Supreme Court has ruled on the claim of a 17-year-old student who sustained quadriplegia in September 2002 when his head struck the river bed during after-school play resulting in $5 million agreed damages.
- Litigation & law practice
Secretary’s awkward lift bad for betting boss: Tabcorp pays out on paper box back injury
The box weighed about 12.7 kg. It contained 5 reams of photocopying paper. Kathryn Dank was as close as she could get to it.
- Litigation & law practice
Taxi cab confession costly: Client’s claim not filed because of poor prospects
It began in the taxi feeder rank at Brisbane airport in October 2002 when the driver was enjoying a lull and was eating a banana at the time he stepped into a hole in the kerb and injured his right shoulder.
- Litigation & law practice
Frosty medicals smash fortunate worker’s future salary loss funds
A Supreme Court damages ruling* this month well illustrates how the clock can be stopped on loss of future earnings calculations when residual disability is assessed as "minor".
- Litigation & law practice
Probable improbables: Driller takes on liability share in fall down unsafe Newcrest mine shaft
A seriously injured mine-worker overcame "improbable" facts "that might have been so obscure that no conclusions could be drawn", to defeat the combined resistance of his employer Downer EDI and mine-owner Newcrest, in a…
- Litigation & law practice
Fall down dusty stairs yields $500,000 for accident prone yacht fitter
Can occupiers escape liability for defective stairs if a plaintiff merely "loses their footing" ? How much loss of earning capacity applies to someone already significantly impaired?
- Litigation & law practice
‘Leisurely pace’ of litigation fails to sink tourist’s Whitsunday boat accident claim
The District Court in Brisbane was asked this month* to absolve a multitude of a statutory and procedural non-compliances relating to a personal injury claim for a U.K.
- Litigation & law practice
Bitter failure for insurer: Allianz doctors crushed in mill worker’s $660,000 win
CTP insurer Allianz was last week defeated on all points in its Supreme Court denial of diminished working capacity for a 22-year-old sugar mill worker, injured in a motor accident in Ingham in October 2001.
- Litigation & law practice
Hobbit laws apply but NZ removes misleading visitor website info
The NZ embassy in Canberra has now responded to demands about misleading and deceptive injury compensation statements on its website by agreeing that they be immediately removed.
- Legal profession
NZ visitors cautioned over second class legal system: Kiwi embassy must alter misleading website
If you or your family are planning a trip to New Zealand, be warned that as you step off the aircraft after landing, you are entering a legal-liability free zone.
- Legal profession
Court allows renewal of claim 13 years after injury: Plaintiff excused in "sorry saga" of "dilatory" solicitors
Solicitors who failed to lodge a WorkCover notice of claim for damages and apply to renew a claim until 11 years after a farm accident had injured their 21 year-old banana picker client, came under heavy criticism last month from…
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