The nurse who sought damages in the world's first lawsuit involving post-traumatic stress disorder as a "bodily injury" was awarded nearly $4.4 million, plus funds management fees, the NSW Supreme Court has revealed today.
The family of a finance employee who died from cardiac arrest has been awarded death benefits, after a commission found the stress of being placed on a "watch list" in a "ruthless" industry contributed to his illness.
A company has been ordered to pay $515,000, instead of $872,000, to a worker with debilitating PTSD, after the NSW Supreme Court found the worker's funds could be managed by a less expensive trustee than the one selected by her mother.
A worker who claims he was bullied and sacked for reporting WHS concerns to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has been denied an unfair dismissal remedy.
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.
Employers can't be considered negligent for failing to identify and eliminate insignificant foreseeable risks, the NSW Court of Appeal has ruled in quashing a $1.5 million damages award.
In separate judgments on the transitional provisions of the 2012 NSW workers' comp overhaul, a judge has found that three injured workers aren't entitled to compensation for pain and suffering, even though they were injured 15 years before the benefit was scrapped.
A worker who had a car crash, while driving to meet her employer after being abused by her manager and quitting her job, was injured in the course of her employment, a commission has found.
An employer has failed to convince the NSW WCC President that a worker's vague recollection of spraining her ankle showed her injury was inevitable at her "stage" of life.
