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The employer of a worker who was kidnapped and murdered while performing duties after-hours has failed in its appeal against a $300,000 death-benefits order.

An employer that was the last of a series of companies to employ a worker before she developed lung cancer, which was possibly caused by passive smoking at work, has won a temporary reprieve against a lump sum compensation order.

An employer that failed to instruct a worker not to stand on scaffolding rails, even if it was "obvious" to workers not to do so, has been ordered to pay him $725,000 in damages, after he fractured his spine in a five-metre fall.

A worker who broke her ankle when she fell down stairs between her home and car was injured in the course of her employment, the NSW WCC has found.

A worker who described his former workplace as a "hell hole on earth" has been awarded workers' compensation, after the NSW WCC found a "toxic" relationship with his manager caused his psychological injury.

An employer is liable to compensate a worker who was seriously injured at a private party at its premises, after the NSW WCC found its director encouraged her to attend by asking if she would be there.

BHP Billiton Ltd has been ordered to pay a former Newcastle Steelworks employee with mesothelioma a record $2.2 million in damages, in a landmark NSW Dust Diseases Tribunal decision today.

An employer that was uninsured when a trainee suffered an injury had no right to question WorkCover NSW's acceptance of his claim, and must repay more than $10,000 in compensation payments.

A trial judge "set a standard of care well above that which was reasonable" when he ordered an employer to pay $650,000 in damages to a man who was hit by a train while intoxicated, the NSW Court of Appeal has found in quashing the decision.

Two NSW employers that failed to provide PPE to two employees who worked outside have been found liable for their skin cancer conditions, one of which resulted in a leg amputation.