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State-of-connection test clarified and applied in favour of injured worker, for the third time

In a long-running case that has gone to an appeals court twice, and examines the intentions of legislative amendments, an employer has failed to prove an injured worker was not connected with a jurisdiction with relatively generous common law rights.

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