Browsing: Workers' comp decisions (NSW)

The decision of two workers to drive home in convoy after night shifts created a "real and substantial connection" between their employment and an accident that led to one of them developing post-traumatic stress disorder, a commission has ruled.

An employer has been ordered to pay death benefits to the dependents of a "subcontractor", whose death led to the WHS prosecutions of multiple parties and $620,000 in fines.

A superior court has ordered the redetermination of worker's chronic pain claim, after finding earlier decisions against the man failed to abide by the strict diagnostic criteria for these types of conditions.

An appeals commission has quashed a decision that a worker's fatal heart attack was caused by work-related road pollution, finding the decision maker failed to assess the "status of the conclusions reached" in studies on the link.

The death of a NSW worker who contracted COVID-19 on a work trip to New York has been found to have occurred in the course of his employment, entitling his widow to death benefits and possibly more than $15 million in medical expenses.

Resources giant BHP has been ordered to pay nearly $600,000 in damages to a worker who was injured in an incident that also attracted a safety fine. The man hurt his back and developed post-traumatic stress disorder after an unsafe BHP road forced him to engage in dangerous driving.

A misstep in an employer's otherwise "exemplary" process for dealing with a worker, after he was accused of making racist remarks in a break room conversation after the Manchester bombing, has made the employer liable for his psychological injury.

A major employer has successfully challenged a worker's bid to be re-examined for his claim for a lump sum payment for his WHS-related psych injury.

The High Court has rejected an employer's bid for special leave to appeal against a ruling that a woman who received death benefits under NSW workers' compensation laws, after her son was killed, is also entitled to pursue damages in her home state of South Australia.

A company has been ordered to pay a visiting delivery driver more than $400,000 in damages, after its workers failed to ensure he remained in a safety zone while they worked around his vehicle.