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A worker has been awarded permanent impairment compensation for his psychological injury, after a tribunal accepted he was unlikely to benefit from further rehabilitative treatment due to his personality and mindset.

A worker who fell from a ladder at home and broke her wrist has proved the injury was causally connected to her work-related knee injury, with a commission ordering her former employer to pay for all her reasonably necessary medical treatments.

An injured worker has failed, in a superior court, to overturn a medical panel decision that she has a whole person impairment of zero per cent. She contended it couldn't be zero because her scans showed "some sort of pathology".

An injured worker's computer illiteracy has influenced a judgment ruling out, as suitable employment, two sedentary roles an employer claims she could perform in lieu of receiving compensation if she honed her skills in a training course.

A manager's evidence on the support a worker received has helped establish a reasonably arguable case against the worker's claim that alleged bullying and work stress caused her psychological condition.

A superior court has rejected an employer's method for calculating incapacity payments and quashed a ruling that an injured worker was not entitled to interim payments because he was better off under Centrelink benefits.

A worker's police records "have a real possibility of shedding light" on workplace events he claimed aggravated his psychological injury, a tribunal has found in quashing his objection to his employer being granted access to the records.

A worker who was injured during a car trip between home and work was injured "in the course of carrying out the duties of her employment" because she was transporting a suitcase of files between two offices at the time, an appeals bench has ruled.

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A major employer has failed to block a worker from pursuing compensation for conditions allegedly linked to a workplace incident that occurred 24 years ago, with a tribunal describing the man's new evidence as "very persuasive".