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.
Qantas has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that an injured worker's unfair dismissal claim was invalid because he had already successfully disputed his RTW plan under state law.
