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Insurers are failing to inform injured workers that they can challenge medical assessments that precede the discontinuance of their benefits after 260 weeks, and continue to refer workers to "conservative" doctors, increasing the likelihood of disputes, WIRO has warned.

A sales consultant who sustained serious head injuries at a work conference has been awarded the costs of experimental stem-cell therapy for her extreme and pervasive pain.

Family members of injured workers in NSW aren't entitled to damages for nervous shock, including where the injured worker is exempt from the 2012 amendments scrapping the benefit, the Court of Appeal has ruled in dismissing a mother's claim.

A worker has been refused lump sum compensation for a psychiatric injury, after a commission rejected her claim that her employer failed to take into account her vulnerable mental state when performance managing her.

An employer could not have foreseen that a worker was at risk of being injured while using equipment designed, installed and maintained by a competent manufacturer, an appeal court has found.

The sister of an injured worker who died after consuming a lethal dose of medication and alcohol has been awarded $750,000 in death benefits.

A former NSW Government Minister has been ordered to pay an injured worker's Court of Appeal costs, and could face a review for allegedly obtaining and publicising the worker's private health information to support his push for workers' comp reforms.

A major employer has failed to convince a commission that it is not liable for occupational hearing loss sustained by an employee more than 25 years ago.

An injured worker's common law claim against a principal contractor has been rejected, after an appeal court found that none of the factors that could impose a duty of care on a principal existed in his case.

A host employer has been ordered to pay nearly $600,000 to a worker who injured her back using incorrect work methods, after a court of appeal majority confirmed that it failed to ensure she had "absorbed" her instructions.