What are the hazards on shopping mall floors that cleaners are expected to regularly detect and remove to keep customers safe?
Read moreFebruary 22, 2019 | 861 ViewsMining giant trounced on heavy rock compo hold out to “stoic” new recruit
An “improbable” injury to a dump truck operator, on the job at a Thiess’ open cut coal mine near Mackay for just two months, has yielded
Read moreFebruary 18, 2019 | 1193 ViewsAdrenaline “would have revived her”; $3 mil QAS asthma attack lawsuit fails
Jenny Masson was already wheezing when she came through the front door of her friend’s Brinsmead home. She turned back round to get the Ventolin spray from the front
Read moreFebruary 17, 2019 | 961 ViewsBurnt bodies & suicides – officer conceals PTSD, refuses counselling: awarded $1.4 mil
An appeal court has cleared a major injury compensation payment to a crack-hardy police constable whose superiors
Read moreJanuary 15, 2018 | 2260 ViewsModel patient wins humiliation $$ after Dr’s unwelcome full body exam
A Gold Coast medical specialist who made a proposition to a patient that she should become his mistress has been ordered to pay compensation for the resulting psychiatric injury and humiliation.
Read moreOctober 20, 2017 | 1607 ViewsSTATE SUNK ON APPEAL, LOSES $558K INJURY IMMUNITY BID
In January 2012 Moyra Roane-Spray was being transferred from an ambulance at the Lamb Island ferry terminal en route to Redlands Hospital when the stretcher she was carried on collapsed at one end.
Read moreOctober 20, 2017 | 1554 ViewsFRESH FOODIES TO PAY OVERWORKED ORDER PICKER $780K FOR BACK INJURY
A Cairns man has been awarded substantial damages after he sustained a debilitating lumbar disc protrusion at the Raintrees Woolies store in Cairns.
Read moreOctober 13, 2017 | 1850 ViewsCOURT ORDERS INSURER REASSESS TPD REJECTION
Edwin Gomez was employed by Queensland Health as a registered nurse until made redundant in 2013. In 2011 he was working in Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital
Read moreAugust 18, 2017 | 1427 ViewsGrade 4 girl gets damages from school for student bullying
An 8 year old girl whose identity has been suppressed, has settled her claim against a Los Angeles public elementary school for bullying.
Read moreJuly 31, 2017 | 3141 ViewsNo medical visit till two years later: Nurse awarded $481k
A hard working aged care nurse who failed to mention her work injury – on any of her many post-accident visits – until two years after the event, has been awarded nearly
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