Browsing: Workers' comp decisions (SA) | Page 16

A tribunal full bench has upheld a worker's entitlement to workers' compensation for a mosquito-borne disease, and rejected an appeal from another worker who was denied compensation for injuries sustained at a dinner function.

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A tribunal has rejected an injured worker's bid to combine his nine separate whole person impairments to boost his lump sum entitlements, after finding they didn't all arise from the same trauma that caused his initial back injury.

A worker's compensable depressive disorder, which resulted from a workplace investigation, was a significant contributing cause of his subsequent heart attack, an employment tribunal has found.

An injured worker's various degrees of impairment, resulting from being over-prescribed opioid medication after back surgery, can be combined for his lump sum compensation claim, a tribunal has found.

A worker has proven an "unbroken chain of causation" between being posted to a remote location, contracting whooping cough and suffering a debilitating stroke.

A worker injured in an employer-provided cabin is entitled to workers' compensation, a tribunal has found. However, it also found that the cabin wasn't his place of employment.

A worker whose eye and brain were pierced by a pool cue during a game with his supervisor has been denied workers' compensation, after a tribunal rejected his claim that his employment required him to socialise with the supervisor.

An injured worker has unsuccessfully argued that workers' comp laws don't prevent her from using her own doctor to assess her permanent impairment, with a tribunal finding it had no jurisdiction to deal with the matter.

A worker who fell out with a colleague on an overseas holiday, before sustaining a psychiatric injury, has been awarded workers' compensation, after a tribunal found the original cause of the conflict was irrelevant.