The Federal Court has slammed a mine manager for his poor knowledge of safety laws and evasive evidence at trial, in finding the mine took adverse action against an injured worker in standing him down four days after he was awarded $637,000 in damages.
Comcare has successfully argued, on appeal, that a worker's psychiatric injury arose from reasonable administrative action, rather than the three years of bullying and harassment that allegedly preceded it.
The Federal Court has upheld an earlier decision to award workers' compensation to a Telstra employee whose stress injury arose from his belief that his workload was excessive.
An injured worker has been refused compensation for the costs of Bikram yoga, while another worker has been denied lump-sum compensation for a 34-year-old back injury, after a tribunal found the relevant Act in the early 1980s didn't provide lump sums for such injuries.
A worker who was filmed performing various manual activities while claiming incapacity payments has been denied an unfair dismissal remedy, with the Fair Work Commission finding he had abused the workers' compensation system.
A worker who was based in Maralinga in the wake of the notorious British nuclear testing program has been denied workers' compensation for skin cancer.
A worker who was seriously injured at a party at her employer's premises, more than a decade ago, has failed to convince the High Court that it should assess her workers' comp claim to avoid confusion around the application of the Hatzimanolis test for interval injuries.
A worker has been denied compensation for tinnitus after the AAT found there was little more than a temporal connection between her employment and her condition. The Tribunal has also rejected a hand-injury claim after hearing there is no scientific evidence linking keyboard use to carpal tunnel syndrome.
Comcare has applied for special leave to appeal to the High Court against a recent full Federal Court decision on a psych injury and the reasonable-administrative-action exclusion in the SRC Act.
