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An injured NSW worker has been given the green light to pursue a second lump sum payment, with a WCC Deputy President finding his claim wasn't affected by the 2012 workers' comp overhaul or a related High Court decision.

The NSW WCC has found a worker who was injured while travelling between her two employers' workplaces is entitled to journey compensation, but only one of the employers is liable.

An employer must pay the family of a worker who died when she fainted and fell onto train tracks during a work journey more than $400,000 in compensation, after a NSW WCC ruling.

An employer has been ordered to pay the family of a worker, who was kidnapped and murdered while performing duties after-hours, nearly $300,000 in death benefits in the NSW WCC.

Friday was a busy day for the NSW workers' comp scheme, with the High Court upholding an employer's appeal against a retrospective-amendment ruling, and the Finance Minister announcing a review of the 2012 scheme overhaul.

A contractor has been ordered to pay $1 million in damages to a worker injured in an eight-metre scaffolding fall, after the NSW Court of Appeal found it took control of the worker's system of work, and revised the SWMS, just days before the incident.

An employer has been ordered to pay the widow of a worker who died when he was immersed in molten metal nearly $320,000 in compensation, after the NSW WCC rejected its claim that the worker committed suicide.

A deceased worker's cardiac arrest resulted from a shoulder dislocation he sustained at work 19 years earlier, the NSW WCC has ruled, in awarding his family $465,100 in lump sum death benefits.

A NSW teacher who tripped while rushing to work to cover an absence has been awarded workers' compensation, in another decision that examines the State's new limited journey coverage.

A workers' comp claim made by a NSW worker, who was seriously injured at a private party at her new employer's premises, wasn't strengthened by the recent motel s-x case, the High Court has ruled.