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An ACT worker whose foot was crushed by a telehandler has been awarded $700,000, after a Court rejected his employer's claim that he should have devised a safer system for transporting materials.
Employer wins first stage of cancer compensation dispute; WorkCover Qld explains best way to reduce compensation costs; and WorkSafe ACT targets workers' comp policy breaches.
A Victorian employer has failed to convince the Court of Appeal that a young injured worker - who can neither sit nor stand "for any significant length of time" - can perform light duties such as traffic controlling.
A former Quarantine employee who claimed workers' compensation nine years after allegedly sustaining a bullying-related psych injury, and then failed to appeal against an AAT decision in favour of Comcare within the required time, has had his case thrown out by the Federal Court.
The NSW Dust Diseases Tribunal has awarded a mesothelioma sufferer $350,000 in general damages, effectively increasing the maximum level of such damages by more than 20 per cent.
Employers aren't required to conduct weekly physical inspections of non-slip strips on stairs, the Western Australian Court of Appeal has ruled in rejecting an injured worker's damages claim.
The NSW WCC has found that workplace conflict didn't cause a worker's psychological injury, and that the timeframe for an investigation into his alleged misconduct was reasonable.
A worker who lives in Queensland and was injured while working in Western Australia for a South Australia-based employer should be compensated under the South Australian workers' comp scheme, a judge has ruled in a state-of-connection dispute.
A Victorian worker who sued his parents after suffering a back injury while working at their tobacco farm has had his contributory-negligence calculation reduced from 70 to 20 per cent in the Supreme Court.
