A worker who sustained injuries immediately before testing positive for methamphetamine, and being dismissed, has been denied workers' compensation for his breach of mutuality.
A company director has been denied workers' compensation for paraplegia because he chose to be remunerated by directors' fees and dividends instead of wages a year before he was injured.
An injured Uber driver was engaged in a "contract of service" with the company that owned the vehicles he drove, and entitled to workers' compensation from that company, a judge has found.
The adverse outcomes of surgery and medical treatments for a workplace injury must be considered when calculating an injured worker's whole person impairment (WPI), a tribunal full bench has confirmed on appeal.
A tribunal full bench has clarified the scope of a new return-to-work provision, finding injured workers can challenge the suitability of a job offered by their pre-injury employer.
A tribunal has rejected claims that a psychologically injured worker wilfully concealed her pre-employment history of mental illness, while another tribunal has rejected an injured worker's bid for the costs of his car repairs.
A former company director, who started self-medicating with alcohol to deal with the stress of employees "rorting" the workers' comp system, has been awarded compensation for brain damage and other injuries.
In a "precedent-setting case", former asbestos producer James Hardie has been ordered to pay exemplary damages to a man with malignant mesothelioma, after a court found it put profits ahead of his safety when it sold him asbestos products it knew could kill.
