In a case highlighting the ongoing costs of unsafe work practices, a major employer has failed to recoup a $1.4 million injury payment through accident insurance.
The High Court has found that a jury should have been allowed to hear and consider an injured worker's claim that her employer breached OHS regulations on hazardous manual tasks.
An employer breached its duty of care in failing to prevent a worker, who was on call 24 hours a day, from working up to 70 hours a week and developing a psychiatric injury, the Victorian Supreme Court has found.
A major employer was negligent in failing to notify a contractor of faulty wiring, which prevented it from carrying out work correctly, and led to a worker receiving an electric shock, a court has found.
An injured worker has been awarded nearly $600,000 in damages, after a court found her employer breached the Victorian OHS Regulations through its "ad hoc" cleaning regime.
A worker who fell from an allegedly defective ladder has been blocked from suing an employer, after a superior court found his ignorance of the origin of the ladder didn't justify extending the limitation period.
A worker whose psychiatric injury - sustained after a colleague was killed in a 1995 fire - resurged after a cycling incident 16 years later, has been granted leave to sue his former employer for damages.
A major employer was not required to prevent pedestrians from using an onsite garden path whose moderate hazards were obvious to anyone who accessed it, the Victorian Supreme Court has found in an indemnity dispute.
