An appeals court has upheld a $1 million-plus injury damages award against a company, as well as a finding that the company's control of another entity extended to the supervision of OHS matters.
A "de facto" employer has been ordered to pay more than $450,000 to a worker who was directed to work on a wet platform, before slipping and falling two metres. Meanwhile, a superior court has found a company breached its duty of care to a mechanic who was crushed by a 200kg plate.
In a ruling on "highest needs" workers' comp provisions, a commission president has stressed that seriously injured workers aren't automatically entitled to the wages safety net introduced two years ago.
A woman seeking lump sum compensation has unsuccessfully claimed that her husband's psych injury, resulting from being accused of fraud at work, contributed to his death from oesophageal cancer more than 20 years later.
Carrying out strenuous tasks that weren't within the scope of his usual duties contributed to a worker falling asleep on his drive home from work and made his serious journey injuries compensable, a commission has found.
A major employer has unsuccessfully argued, before a commission, that the eye injuries a worker sustained in a bird attack in a car park are non-compensable journey injuries.
An employer that was recently charged with WHS breaches relating to a worker's death has been ordered to pay the worker's estate both death benefits and permanent impairment compensation, likely to total more than $1 million.
A labour-hire company has been refused special leave to appeal to the High Court against a ruling that it was liable to indemnify a host-employer for the $800,000 paid to a worker who was injured after the supply contract between the parties formally lapsed.
An appeals court has quashed a finding that being placed on a performance "watch list" and other employment stressors caused a worker's fatal cardiac arrest, entitling his family to death benefits.
