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workers compensation and rehabilitation act
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Picture hiddenLogistics worker injuryServo worker rolls WorkCover on “injury just waiting to happen” ruling
A long serving customer service attendant whose overuse injury was rejected by WorkCover and the Workers’ Compensation Regulator has got up on appeal by overturning specialists' opinions to the effect that her debilitating…
- Litigation & law practice
Based at home staff: a home is still a home
Jane Farnham used her own car to get from her home to the many locations she was required to visit in her role as “community visitor” for Queensland’s Children’s Commission.
- Litigation & law practice
Claimant overdoes hand tremor, experts recant on surveillance footage
Melanie Digby had worked at the Palmwoods campus for about 12 months when in June 2008 senior Constable Mark Reedman arrived for a “stranger danger” demonstration.
- Litigation & law practice
“Nothing accident” aggravates pre-existing condition on sideways sitting forklift?
A 36-year-old cold store employee with extensive experience in the operation of Reach forklifts – where the driver sits sideways to improve control getting in and out of narrow storage aisles has won a WorkCover appeal for what…
- Litigation & law practice
Staff breasts ogled by State Library supervisor, covert pics: ‘unconnected to employment’
A supervisor at the State Library used employer-issued equipment to take thousands of covert photographs of the breasts of female staff before his deeds were discovered.
- Litigation & law practice
Woolies pinged on “unlawful” hold out to injured worker’s $750k lawsuit
A night-filler who injured his back from continuous awkward motions required of his role over the entire period of employment has succeeded in striking out a retail giant’s argument that may have sunk his claim.
- Personal injury
Reticence to report a potential roadblock to Rio worker’s injury recovery
A shift-work fitter made no mention until months later of injuring his back doing heavy work usually reserved for a crane, because it wasn’t unusual for back pain to decrease during his days off.
- Litigation & law practice
From killing field to slaughter house: refugee worker in abattoir compo win
An Afghan refugee employed as a labourer on the process line at a Teys Bros meatworks has been compelled to seek court orders to permit his safety consultant to inspect the abattoir to compile a report as to the safety…
- Litigation & law practice
Dung dust illness not just coincidence, Bunnings to pay $700k in worker lawsuit
Hardware giant Bunnings has been ordered to part with $700k after an appeal court ruled against its refusal to pay compensation to a staff member who contracted a life-threatening condition from exposure to fertiliser dust at its…
- Litigation & law practice
Injury date discrepancy no bar to valid NOCD, phoned in medical report “totally inadequate”
Council worker Osman Bakhit was moving temporary-fencing base slabs at Ascot’s Bartleys Hill Reservoir when he ruptured a disc in his back in 2011.
- Litigation & law practice
Labour hire group taps WorkCover to cover injury indemnity for co-liable host
Indemnity payments from labour-hire organisations to industry clients will be put under the spotlight as a result of a Queensland court ruling published this week.
- Litigation & law practice
Dealer in winning $200k hand
Part of the work of a roulette dealer is to gather chips used by gamblers and sort them into stacks by colour. In 2004, Lidija Romig was a part-time roulette dealer at Brisbane’s Treasury Casino.
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