voluntary assumption of risk

• Litigation & law practice

  ‘Glow in the dark’ bowling lane action a slippery affair

  A worker who slipped on the lacquered surface of a bowling lane during a work arranged tenpin play-off, has sustained a $261k injury as a result of her fall but penalised 40% for her own contribution to the accident.

  27 June 2014
• Litigation & law practice

  Suncorp pleads ‘clunker defence’: you knew it was a rust bucket, suck up your brain injuries

  Taking risks with the mechanical state of a vehicle could void personal injury compensation for a resulting motor accident if the mechanical fault is the cause; failing to get clear of a vehicle in the middle of a busy highway…

  8 January 2014
• Litigation & law practice

  Cycling not inherently dangerous: rider defeats council on Shorncliffe roadworks wreck

  The Brisbane City Council has failed in its Civil Liability Act bid to hold out a fitness rider from injury damages after he was thrown from his bike on encountering unfinished bitumen resurfacing on a suburban bayside…

  28 June 2013
• 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.

  13 March 2011

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