Two employers have unsuccessfully attempted to avoid liability for workplace injuries by (in the first case) relying on a consultant psychiatrist's unfounded claim that a worker was a "heavy drinker", and (in the second) contending a condition arose from a non-work-related restraining order application.
A worker who was on "availability duty" when he broke his leg, while walking his dog, was injured in the course of his employment, a tribunal has ruled, finding his employer's interpretation of the High Court test for interval injuries was too narrow.
An employer's evidence disputing a worker's claims of bullying and "toxic" conditions fell well short of the evidentiary expectations set by a supreme court chief justice, a tribunal has ruled.
An injured worker has been refused compensation after a tribunal found it was reasonably arguable she "staged" a work-related fall and deliberately hurt herself.
A worker was "on the job" when he was violently assaulted while chasing an absconding customer, a tribunal has found in rejecting his employer's liability challenge.
An employer has convinced a tribunal that intense computer work did not cause a worker's hand injury, but it failed to avoid one of the other "pathways to liability".
The suicide death of a worker, who started abusing marijuana to relieve the pain from a work injury, did not arise from his employment, a superior court has ruled.
A worker who suffered incapacitating back pain while walking at work has unsuccessfully argued, in an appeals court, that his employment should be characterised as "the" major cause of his condition in the absence of another identified major cause.
A major employer has escaped liability for a worker's psychological injury, for now, by outlining to a tribunal the steps it allegedly took to protect her health after realising her workload was "probably excessive".
