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Case notes tagged “workers compensation and rehabilitation act”.
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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
‘Gun’ tiler outnumbered, jail time too high an obstacle to win
The criminal record of a tradesman injured at the "Promenade" construction site in Robina Town Centre in May 2009, sealed the fate of his $350k back injury compensation claim made against conflicting evidence of how it occurred.
- 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
Suspicion of undeclared work no bar to $400k win for long suffering kiwi
Prior medical conditions and an arrest history were only some of the blots on a past that Keith Kilner needed to overcome to establish credibility in his motor accident damages ask before Brisbane's district court last month.
- Litigation & law practice
Serial claimant’s ‘mildly mental’ plea to stop compensation clock
A 30-year-old welder injured by a toppling crane in 2004, pleaded mental incapacity as the excuse for a delay until 2010 to commence his compensation lawsuit, contending that the 3 year limitation time clock must be stopped for…
- 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
Benevolent Bunnings
A "technologically dumb" store clerk injured in a company-sponsored game of tunnel ball in August 2008, has been awarded $270,000 personal injury compensation following a two-day trial in Brisbane.
- 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
Suspicious minds fuel desperate defence: "continuum of symptoms" routs bank beat up
A "big four" bank was last week ordered to halt its refusal of injury compensation to a Gladstone customer server who fell to the floor when the back of a service centre chair collapsed in December 2006.
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