Browsing: Workers' comp decisions (SA) | Page 18

A tribunal full bench has upheld a judge's decision to award compensation to a worker who sustained an injury after completing paperwork outside of working hours, but quashed the judge's application of the High Court's "interval" test.

A workers' comp case officer has been awarded weekly payments for a psychological injury, despite deliberately concealing her multiple non-work-related stressors, including a police investigation into her involvement in the fatality that led to the jailing of Peter Colbert.

In a "landmark decision", a workers' comp tribunal has ordered an employer to provide employment to a sacked injured worker, and rejected its constitutional challenge of a return-to-work law.

An injured worker has unsuccessfully argued, on appeal, that a compensating authority should have assessed his lump-sum claim hastily to prevent him losing the benefit during the transition to new workers' compensation laws.

A worker who suffered a "devastating" stroke has been awarded workers' compensation, after a tribunal found her injury was caused by a "very high level of work-related stress".

A regulator is cracking down on labour-hire companies and host employers that fraudulently under-declare wages for workers' comp purposes, and has successfully prosecuted two workers for injury fraud, including one who was caught playing cricket and football while receiving total incapacity payments.

In another case examining the transitional provisions of South Australia's new Return to Work Act, a tribunal has found an injured worker retained his pre-July entitlement to apply for his weekly payments to be restored.

In an important case, a tribunal has rejected a regulator's claim that the transitional provisions of South Australia's new Return to Work Act extinguish the lump sum entitlements that an injured worker accrued under the old Act.

An employee who was injured while submitting leave forms to her workplace outside of working hours had been "encouraged or induced" to attend the premises, a tribunal has found in awarding her workers' compensation.

A tribunal has found there was an "unbroken chain of causation" between a worker's compensable psychiatric injury and his death five years after quitting his job, but rejected his ex-wife's bid for death benefits.