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Nervous-shock exemptions don't extend to families

Family members of injured workers in NSW aren't entitled to damages for nervous shock, including where the injured worker is exempt from the 2012 amendments scrapping the benefit, the Court of Appeal has ruled in dismissing a mother's claim.

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