Two employers that were fined for OHS breaches after a worker's leg was amputated have now been ordered to pay the man more than $2.2 million in damages.
An employer has been ordered to pay a worker more than $3.8 million in damages for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), after one of his colleagues attempted to murder him by throwing him over a fourth-floor balcony.
The NSW Court of Appeal has quashed a $926,000 damages award, in finding that a truck crash was caused by excessive speed, and that an employer that was sued over the incident had been entitled to rely on an expert contractor to safely load the vehicle.
A NSW worker who injured his knee during a rugby league game on his day off has been awarded workers' compensation, after a commission found that a number of his senior managers were members of the association that organised the match.
An injured worker who started and finished his shifts in NSW, but regularly attended an ACT depot, wasn't "usually based" in a single jurisdiction, the ACT Supreme Court has found.
An employer has successfully appealed against a finding that a worker was entitled to three concurrent awards of weekly workers' compensation for three injuries.
An employer's victory in a passive-smoking dispute has proved short-lived, with an arbitrator finding it had a "very poorly" functioning ventilation system, and ordering it to compensate a worker with lung cancer.
The father of a worker who died in a car crash on her way home from work has been awarded nearly $500,000 in compensation, after the NSW WCC found the incident was covered by the State's restricted journey laws because of the woman's work-related fatigue.
