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Case notes tagged “workplace injury”.
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- 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
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.
- 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
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
Artisan survives war zones to lose $200k claim for co-worker race assault
Management at Couran Cove resort was excused for failing to act earlier to fire a lunatic tradesman who seriously injured his 60 yr old co-worker by beating him with a wooden stake, before chasing him down in a van.
- 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.
- Litigation & law practice
Worker absolved of sins of delay, lives to fight another day
A seriously injured truck driver "of limited education" has won the right to pursue motor accident compensation damages after a last gasp limitation extension hearing to rectify his lawyers' jurisdiction selection decision.
- Litigation & law practice
Sixteen schooner a day miner survives tax and drug slurs: escapes with $380k and pride
In a Supreme Court verdict published last week, a Cardwell mine worker's exaggerated recovery from youthful sporting injuries slashed the compensation awarded for his August 2005 work site accident at Century Mine in Queensland's…
- 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…
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