An employer that failed to carry out a "diligent investigation" into serious allegations against a worker has been found liable for his psychological injury.
A worker has been awarded permanent impairment compensation for his psychological injury, after a tribunal accepted he was unlikely to benefit from further rehabilitative treatment due to his personality and mindset.
A worker who fell from a ladder at home and broke her wrist has proved the injury was causally connected to her work-related knee injury, with a commission ordering her former employer to pay for all her reasonably necessary medical treatments.
An injured worker has failed, in a superior court, to overturn a medical panel decision that she has a whole person impairment of zero per cent. She contended it couldn't be zero because her scans showed "some sort of pathology".
An injured worker's computer illiteracy has influenced a judgment ruling out, as suitable employment, two sedentary roles an employer claims she could perform in lieu of receiving compensation if she honed her skills in a training course.
A manager's evidence on the support a worker received has helped establish a reasonably arguable case against the worker's claim that alleged bullying and work stress caused her psychological condition.
A superior court has rejected an employer's method for calculating incapacity payments and quashed a ruling that an injured worker was not entitled to interim payments because he was better off under Centrelink benefits.
A worker's police records "have a real possibility of shedding light" on workplace events he claimed aggravated his psychological injury, a tribunal has found in quashing his objection to his employer being granted access to the records.
