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A judge has refused a worker an extension of time to be re-classified as "seriously injured", but hinted that he might have granted permission if he believed the original medical assessment was wrong.

In a case examining a new workers' comp benefit, a tribunal has refused to pre-approve a shoulder operation for an injured worker, after finding his decision to delay the procedure jeopardised the prospect of a good outcome.

In separate decisions, a workers' comp tribunal has ruled on new suitable employment laws, and found an injured worker wasn't obliged to authorise his doctors to speak to a regulator.

A worker has been awarded workers' compensation for tinnitus arising from the use of headsets, following a "common-sense evaluation" of the evidence, while another worker has been refused compensation for hearing loss incurred at employer-provided accommodation.

A worker has been awarded workers' compensation for a mosquito-borne disease, after a tribunal found her employer induced her to stay in the shoddy accommodation where she was bitten by the insects.

A manager has been refused workers' compensation for injuries sustained at a client's social event, after a tribunal found his attendance wasn't required by his employment.

An employer has successfully argued, on appeal, that there was no evidence a worker sustained a back injury three days after, rather than two days before, she ceased working for a labour-hire company and became a permanent employee.

A worker who dislocated his ankle after having a seizure has been awarded compensation, after a tribunal found his employment "positioned" him in circumstances that caused the injury. Also in this article, a sole trader has been fined for breaching the WHS provision on "fixtures, fittings or plant".

The "incomplete" CPR performed on a worker who had a cardiac arrest, while working unobserved in an elevated boom lift, didn't break the chain of causation between his employment and subsequent death, a tribunal has found.

A partially incapacitated worker, whose new employer went into liquidation, has been refused weekly compensation under the transitional provisions of South Australia's new Return to Work Act.