An employer that claimed an employee's fatal cardiac arrhythmia could not have been caused by work stress - because Australian workers would be "dropping down like flies" if work-related anxiety caused sudden death - has been ordered to compensate the man's family.
An employer that relied on its OHS manager's "unqualified medical opinion" of an injured worker's capacity has been ordered by a judge to find him suitable employment within the organisation.
A worker who told WorkCover SA he broke his hand when he tripped, when he actually sustained the injury by punching a wall, has become the second worker in two days to be penalised for workers' comp fraud.
A South Australian worker who played competitive basketball while claiming workers' compensation for wrist injuries has been handed a three-month suspended jail sentence.
An employer will not have to pay $1.6 million in damages to a worker whose schizophrenia and diabetes were caused by a minor hand injury, after the South Australian District Court found it couldn't have foreseen the worker wasn't a "person of normal fortitude".
A worker's claim that his psychotic episode arose from working in an isolated location, and having excessive safety responsibilities, has been rejected by the South Australian WCT.
Workers' comp cheats under scrutiny; WorkCover WA targeting lapsed policies and other breaches; and Comcare launches tool to reduce organisational-change injuries.
The partner of South Australian worker Brett Fritsch - whose death led to the notorious OHS prosecution of Ferro Con - has lost her appeal against a workers' compensation ruling.
A worker who lives in Queensland and was injured while working in Western Australia for a South Australia-based employer should be compensated under the South Australian workers' comp scheme, a judge has ruled in a state-of-connection dispute.