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A company that created a "hidden danger" when it loaded a truck is more liable for a worker's serious injuries than the worker's employer, the NSW Court of Appeal has found in a $5.75 million damages case.
A worker who witnessed suicides and other distressing incidents during his employment is likely to be awarded lump sum compensation for PTSD, after the NSW WCC rejected his employer's claim that the condition was secondary to an arm injury.
An employer that claimed an employee's fatal cardiac arrhythmia could not have been caused by work stress - because Australian workers would be "dropping down like flies" if work-related anxiety caused sudden death - has been ordered to compensate the man's family.
An employer has been ordered to pay nearly $700,000 in damages to a contract driver who injured his back while unloading jammed pallets from a truck, after a judge found the man was unlikely to complain about poorly packed loads for fear of losing work.
A full Federal Court has found that an injured worker should be paid the equivalent of just 12 hours of pay per week in compensation, in overturning an earlier decision to base her "normal weekly earnings" on the hours she worked before a 2008 car accident.
Compensation cheat escapes jail, but suspended sentences now abolished; Don't forget about silicosis, warns VWA; Greens motion for firefighters with cancer defeated; and Emergency workers protected by new anti-violence laws.
A worker whose sensitivity to chemicals was aggravated by her colleagues' perfume has been denied compensation for permanent impairment, after the AAT found she didn't meet the impairment threshold.
The employer of a worker who was kidnapped and murdered while performing duties after-hours has failed in its appeal against a $300,000 death-benefits order.
A Western Australian employer failed to ensure the safety of a worker who was assaulted and developed PTSD, but it won't have to pay him damages, after the District Court found his permanent whole person impairment was two per cent lower than the damages threshold.
