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Case notes tagged “workers compensation and rehabilitation act”.
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- Litigation & law practice
Expense & inconvenience too great for multinational corps to bear, safety measure ‘not warranted’
Despite a sub-standard assessment of security risks of the Brisbane locality in which an international company chose to site its business, a security company, the security consultant and the international conglomerate responsible…
- Litigation & law practice
Solicitor advice dooms wrist injury limitation extension?
Wendy Grey sought legal advice in July 2011 for a possible common-law damages claim for cumulative workplace injuries that began as early as 2006 when she took up a housekeeping position at the Outrigger Resort, Hervey Bay.
- Litigation & law practice
Workbench injury a private affair – Court
The presence of metal cupboard handles beneath a collating desk created an obvious risk of a knee injury which his employer ought to have removed, according to 36 yr old call-centre worker Ian Larkin.
- Litigation & law practice
Seafood chef late to court, seeks time extension for starters
A Court has ruled that a worker's severe reading and comprehension disabilities sufficiently explained his 4 year delay in seeking legal advice about the consequences of a negligently caused on-the-job lifting injury.
- Litigation & law practice
Mixed messages on safety hands pig worker big win for knife slash
A Sarina slaughterman who avoided the use of a protective steel mesh glove because it slowed his work rate, has secured substantial damages as a result of a kill floor accident in August 2010.
- Litigation & law practice
Tough crowd: improv falls flat on appeal court audience
The use of razor-sharp off-cuts as a workaround to protect electrical insulation during the construction of a Palm Beach condo development was a reasonable building technique for which an electrical contractor employer bore no…
- Litigation & law practice
Council fails to defeat road worker’s $642k truck descent claim, tray manufacturer exonerated
A council roadsign checker who sustained a disc injury in early 2006 as he slipped from a truck step while descending and fell to the road below, is the beneficiary of a $642,000 judgement delivered this month by the Brisbane…
- Litigation & law practice
Workers fall short in psych injury claims; security guard gets $364k on temper tantrum appeal
In the first of three psychiatric injury decisions delivered in August - which speak to all the key elements of duty, foreseeability, causation and damage - electrical goods distributor AME Products has successfully defended an…
- Litigation & law practice
Army injury records shaft miner in $1.9mil damages ask
An underground coal miner whose back “exploded in pain” when hauling equipment along a mine tunnel has been awarded a fraction of the damages demanded as a result of the accident.
- Litigation & law practice
Court choice forces lower damages payout for injured farm labourer
Compensation damages to be paid by American nut conglomerate Hancock Agricultural have been reduced to fit the District Court jurisdictional limit after the court ruled it could not award the full sum assessed arising from the…
- Litigation & law practice
Court chides lawyers for disclosure avoidance, blocks laborer’s $2 mil payout
The Supreme Court has chided a plaintiff's lawyers during a seven-day personal injury trial, for “deliberately not obtaining a signed statement” from their client to gain a forensic advantage by preventing a disclosable document…
- Litigation & law practice
Food people just too fresh: court checks out assessment manipulation at damages gateway
Woolworths took no umbrage at a compensation claim arising out of the conduct of the butchery at its Ayr supermarket until it was made clear that the event for which damages were being sought was exposure to working practices…
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