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The provision of new medical certificates for injured workers does not automatically terminate the effect of preceding certificates, a tribunal has ruled.

In a case reiterating the need for employers to provide sufficient evidentiary material in workers' comp disputes, a tribunal has found that an injured health and safety officer is entitled to weekly benefits.

A worker's degrees of impairment from PTSD and a physical injury can be combined to meet the damages threshold because they arose from the same incident, a tribunal has found.

A worker with permanent brain injuries has been awarded more than $12 million in damages, after a court found a manager's "consistent turning of a blind eye" to written policies showed the worker didn't breach any safety rules when she crashed a vehicle.

A firefighter with cancer is covered by presumptive workers' comp laws despite actively firefighting for less than half of the qualifying period, a commissioner has found.

An employer was entitled to introduce KPIs to monitor a worker's performance just weeks after he returned to work from three months' sick leave, a tribunal has found in rejecting the man's stress claim.

A worker who tested positive to cannabis after a forklift incident has been awarded compensation, after a tribunal found there was no evidence he was impaired by the drug when he was injured.

A husband and wife have been ordered to pay more than $1 million in damages to a friend who fell from a ladder while working on their roof. A supreme court judge found that while they didn't owe him a duty under work health and safety laws, they were still required to prescribe a safe system of work.

A supreme court judge has stressed that employers bear the onus of proving a "reasonably arguable case" against a workers' comp claim, and awarded compensation to a psychologically injured worker.

A trial for a $40 million workplace injury damages claim will determine both liability and quantum, as well as overlapping issues like the use of PPE, after a supreme court judge rejected the defendant employers' bid for liability to be decided separately.