A commission has upheld a $750,000 death-benefits award, after finding a worker unintentionally consumed a lethal mix of medication and alcohol to cope with a workplace injury.
A worker has failed to convince a superior court that a workers' compensation medical panel denied him procedural fairness by focusing on his cannabis use.
An employer unfairly sacked a worker, who left work abruptly while suffering a panic attack, by misinterpreting his conduct as an intention to resign, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
A worker who fell out with a colleague on an overseas holiday, before sustaining a psychiatric injury, has been awarded workers' compensation, after a tribunal found the original cause of the conflict was irrelevant.
Men working in male-dominated workforces are at increased risk of depression, but tailored interventions can improve their mental health literacy, remove stigma and encourage them to seek help, Australian researchers say.
A man with borderline personality disorder has been allowed to pursue his direct discrimination claim against an employer that rejected his job application.
A worker's degrees of impairment from PTSD and a physical injury can be combined to meet the damages threshold because they arose from the same incident, a tribunal has found.
The High Court has found that the reasonable administrative action exclusion in workers' comp laws blocks psychological injury claims arising from the "real or imagined" consequences of such action, such as being bullied by a manager.
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.
