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.
Workers who receive peer support from trained colleagues immediately after a traumatic occupational accident are less likely to take extended sick leave, researchers have found.
A worker has been awarded more than $1 million in damages and compensation, after she was bullied in a "feedback" meeting and during mediation with a supervisor.
A leading OHS lawyer has outlined six "golden rules" for ensuring compliance with both safety and anti-discrimination laws when managing workers who might have a mental illness.
An injured worker seen lifting a kayak and fishing in an "illuminating" surveillance video no longer suffers from the effects of his compensable injuries, a tribunal has found.
A worker who was recently diagnosed with PTSD resulting from a 1970s bank robbery has been refused workers' compensation, after a tribunal found he had "insight" into his condition decades ago.
An employer's "unnecessarily forensic or elaborate" investigation into a workplace s-xual harassment complaint caused an emotionally vulnerable worker's psychological injury, a commission has found.
