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In important concurrent judgments, a tribunal full bench has quashed, for lack of evidence, a finding that steroid injections proposed for an injured worker constitute compensable surgery, and upheld a ruling that another injured worker's nerve block injections aren't surgical treatments.

An employer unreasonably contributed to a worker's psychiatric injury by trying to test his honesty in a final penalty meeting and withholding key information from an investigation into his misconduct, a tribunal has found.

The substantive proceedings for a worker's claim that he developed dementia as a result of witnessing a traumatic fatality have been given the go-ahead, with a judge allowing him to appoint a litigation guardian.

An injured worker employed by a UK-based company has successfully argued his employment should be treated on a project-by-project basis, so that liability for his injury fell to an Australian jurisdiction where he worked for just two days.

A worker has unsuccessfully argued that his injury from an intoxicated fall was work-related because he was self-medicating with alcohol to cope with pain from earlier work injuries.

A tribunal full bench has confirmed it is unnecessary to calculate an injured worker's whole person impairment before rejecting his bid to be treated as seriously injured on an interim basis.

An injured worker's right to apply in advance to recover future treatment costs is not a stand-alone entitlement excluded from prescribed time limitations, an appeals court has ruled in an important judgment on poorly drafted laws.

A regulator has been refused special leave to appeal to the High Court against a ruling that an injured worker's consent orders don't bar him from lodging further compensation claims.

A full bench has found emails sent by an injured worker constituted an application for future compensable surgery, but agreed his claim was blocked by being too vague on the procedure he needed and when.

Laws providing lump sum payments and indefinite weekly benefits to injured workers are likely to be amended in one jurisdiction, with a series of judgments raising concerns over poor drafting and contradictory provisions.