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A contractor has been ordered to pay $1 million in damages to a worker injured in an eight-metre scaffolding fall, after the NSW Court of Appeal found it took control of the worker's system of work, and revised the SWMS, just days before the incident.
A Queensland supervisor who crashed a 20-tonne crane on a public road while driving it home has been denied damages, with the Supreme Court finding his employer could not have foreseen such "wilfully inappropriate conduct".
A recent case involving a worker who was awarded $240,000 in damages - after being bullied for just 11 days - demonstrates how important it is to proactively respond to all workplace bullying complaints, according to employment and safety lawyer Hedy Cray.
The estate of a deceased worker who suffered from work-related skin cancer isn't entitled to workers' compensation, because the man didn't lodge his claim until four years after his "diagnosis", the Queensland Industrial Court has found.
A worker who became obese after his right leg was amputated as a result of a work-related truck accident isn't entitled to the costs of a treadmill, a tribunal has "reluctantly" ruled.
An employer has been ordered to pay the widow of a worker who died when he was immersed in molten metal nearly $320,000 in compensation, after the NSW WCC rejected its claim that the worker committed suicide.
A Victorian employer was entitled to assume a worker was capable of performing a managerial role without sustaining a stress-related psych injury, the Court of Appeal has ruled in dismissing the worker's damages claim.
A deceased worker's cardiac arrest resulted from a shoulder dislocation he sustained at work 19 years earlier, the NSW WCC has ruled, in awarding his family $465,100 in lump sum death benefits.
An employer that ignored a worker's "clear signs of distress", and then told her she had to return to a role where managers bullied her, has been found liable for her psychological injury.
