An appeals court has quashed a decision allowing an injured worker to improve his access to compensation by combining impairments from injuries arising from the same cause. Meanwhile, another worker similarly battling to combine his degrees of impairment has been awarded cleaning services and a recliner.
The High Court has partly upheld a James Hardie company's appeal against an economic-loss ruling in favour of one of its many asbestos victims, in a case involving an Australian-first punitive damages payment.
An appeals court has upheld a judgment in favour of two injured workers seeking pre-approval for the provision of surgery and medical services they might need in the future, after finding a regulator's application rules were too stringent.
An appeals court has quashed a ruling that an injured worker's weekly benefits must equal or exceed the Federal minimum wage. Another superior court has upheld an employer's appeal against a ruling that a worker was eligible to sue it for damages.
A company owner's attempts to alter a worker's role through a snarky email and verbal threats were unreasonable administrative actions that injured the worker, a tribunal has ruled.
A tribunal has rejected a worker's submission that documents he produced for his workers' comp claim constituted an application, within the time limit, for the costs of future surgery. Meanwhile, a full bench has decided that a case involving a worker's stroke-causing whooping cough should be retried.
A full Supreme Court has rejected claims that a workers' comp claimant was required to prove her employment exposed her to a "greater risk" of being bitten by a diseased mosquito than at her suburban home.
An employer unreasonably disregarded an individual worker's mental health when it sent out a group email with a "bare directive" that employees had to pass psychological tests to continue in their roles, a tribunal has found.
A fly-in-fly-out worker was complying with his duty to take steps to prevent the effects of fatigue and safely transition from night to day shifts when he injured his knee playing cricket, a tribunal has found.
A tribunal has dismissed claims that a worker's whole person impairment for noise-induced hearing loss should be assessed based on tests conducted shortly after he left his last noisy employer, when his injury was less severe.
