The High Court has rejected another special leave application involving a work-related psychiatric injury in Queensland, with an employer being the losing party on this occasion.
The High Court has revoked its own decision to grant a worker special leave to appeal against a ruling that her employer didn't have a duty to protect her psychological health from "insensitive" investigation letters blaming her for an altercation.
A major employer should have undertaken psychological profiling of a worker before offering him a role where he had to deal with threatening situations, a court has found in awarding him more than $150,000 in damages for mental injuries.
An employer has been ordered to pay a worker $1.13 million after he was injured when the canopy of his vehicle unexpectedly rose and caused a collision - a risk the vehicle's manufacturer had warned about.
An employer has successfully challenged a decision to change its industry classification for workers' compensation purposes, which increased its annual premium by more than $150,000.
A supervisor's direction for a worker to breach a "life saving" rule was unreasonable management action that significantly contributed to the worker's psychiatric disorder, a commission has ruled.
A labour-hire company and a host employer have been ordered to pay nearly $1 million in damages to a worker who was injured when he was forced to adopt an extreme posture to keep up with a fast-paced production line.
A worker engaged in serious and wilful misconduct by continually "taunting and baiting" a co-worker until he snapped and assaulted him, a commission has found in rejecting his workers' compensation claim.
An employer has been ordered to pay nearly $800,000 in damages to a worker who was injured while riding a pallet jack like a scooter, after a superior court found it was vicariously liable for a colleague kicking the jack.
A commission has found that a worker sustained her psychiatric injury a year earlier than she claimed, which means that the bullying she was allegedly subjected to after the earlier date cannot be considered when determining her eligibility for compensation.
