An appeals commission has dismissed a bid for death benefits by the family of a worker who died from a heart attack while making a delivery. It upheld a previous ruling that there was insufficient scientific evidence linking workplace pollution to the worker's death.
A commission has rejected a major education employer's claim that an "ancient" settlement removed its obligation to provide suitable duties to an injured worker.
A senior manager's aggressive manner and other missteps made a Sydney council's otherwise reasonable decision to investigate a matter unreasonable, contributing to a worker's psychological injury and entitling him to compensation, an appeals commission has confirmed.
A major employer has been deemed liable for the psychological injuries a worker developed after she was involved in product-quality-related incidents, which led to her being "interrogated" as if she was involved in a "murder case", a commission has found.
An appeals commission has upheld a physically and psychologically injured worker's claims, in a dispute over whether CCTV footage of an incident actually showed the woman sustaining an injury.
The mother of a young worker impaled on a steel rod has been awarded more than $200,000 for post-traumatic stress linked to the incident, while her son has been awarded $520,000, and two negligent companies have been ordered to foot most of the bill.
A school payroll officer with "brain fog" and a respiratory illness has lost her bid for compensation, after failing to prove that mould in her workplace's air-conditioning system and other areas caused her condition.
A worker who claimed he was psychologically injured from being required to perform a hazardous task without personal protective equipment, and being bullied by managers and co-workers, has been denied compensation in a case examining the "perception of real events".
An appeals commission has quashed a decision denying a worker the costs of the "novel" treatment of medicinal cannabis for his chronic pain from a work injury.