A public prosecutor's $435,000 damages award, for post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from exposure to "abhorrent" crimes, has been quashed in an appeals court ruling on causation.
Highlighting the flaws in an expert report on job rotation, obtained by an injured worker, has helped two employers successfully challenge a ruling that they breached their duty of care to the worker by requiring her to perform repetitive tasks.
Comcare has been cleared of liability for a worker's sedentary and manual handling injuries, but its claim that her incapacitating secondary psychological illness, which arose from working with pain, was no longer work-related has been rejected.
Workers' compensation laws limiting or blocking damages claims "in respect of" a workplace injury do not necessarily apply to claims made by third parties affected by the incident, a recent superior court ruling on a fatality has shown.
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.
An employer has been granted a second opportunity to challenge claims that a worker's work injury was causally connected to her fatal heart attack, which was triggered by the stress of attending a hearing to defend her workers' comp claim.
A worker who fell through a workplace roof while investigating a malfunction, which he noticed while driving past the site outside of his normal hours, was not contributorily negligent, a court has found in awarding him nearly $1 million in damages for his injuries.
An employer that accused an injured worker of workers' comp fraud has been ordered to pay the man $350,000 in damages, with a judge finding it negligently failed to implement a safe system for a frequently repeated task.
A major employer has been found liable for a worker's psychological disorder, with a commissioner stressing that the tone and demeanour of managers will always be relevant when determining whether their actions were reasonable.
Two employers that failed to identify and rectify a step that didn't comply with Australian Standards have been ordered to pay damages to a worker who sustained injuries descending the step.
