A tribunal has upheld a worker's bid to obtain her supervisors' disciplinary records and details of any complaints made against them, to show if they had a "propensity" to bully subordinates to support her psychological injury claim.
A major government employer ignored "clear warnings" and recommendations from a worker and its own doctor on minimising the impact of a major workplace change, exacerbating the vulnerable worker's psychological injury and incapacitating her for work, a tribunal has found.
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".
A regulator has unsuccessfully argued that surveillance footage of a worker maintaining a social life and enjoying recreational activities meant she was no longer incapacitated by physical and psychological injuries stemming from two workplace falls.
A ruling allowing an injured worker to pursue damages in a jurisdiction with unfettered common law rights has been overturned on appeal, in an important judgment on state-of-connection tests.
A worker who developed asthma from being exposed to dust without respiratory protection is permanently impaired by his condition and entitled to recover damages from an employer, a court has ruled.
A major employer has been refused orders for an injured worker to attend three medical examinations to rebut her recently acquired medical evidence, in an impairment dispute.
A business owner has been handed a $532,000 injury damages bill, after a superior court found he was vicariously liable for an inexperienced worker incorrectly manipulating a crane's controls and knocking over a colleague.
A worker's reporting of serious safety issues led to a long "saga of workplace difficulties" that caused his psychological injury, a commission has found.
James Hardie has been ordered to pay for expensive, advanced immunotherapy treatment for a mesothelioma sufferer, in a landmark case setting a "significant precedent" for future damages awards for workplace victims and others.
