71 articles are classified in All Articles > Legislation, regulation and caselaw > Workers' compensation court and tribunal decisions > Western Australia
An appeals court has rejected a major employer's claim that an injured worker's previous overtime payments ceased to form part of his compensation when that compensation was stepped down after 13 weeks of incapacity.
An employer negligently relied on a very experienced and highly regarded worker to perform his tasks safely, a court has found in awarding the worker nearly $1 million in injury damages.
A worker who was accused of misusing confidential information and had her security pass and work phone confiscated in a meeting with her supervisor, is entitled to compensation for a stress injury, a court has confirmed.
An employer whose systems supported an injured worker's "postural breaks", has escaped liability for her claim that it returned her to work too early after a work injury, incapacitating her.
An employer's safety systems were sufficient to absolve it of liability for a falling object and an employee's spinal injury, which was caused by another company's negligence, a court has found.
An employer's duty to provide a safe system of work extends to maintaining and enforcing such a system, including where an alternative system creates a foreseeable risk of injury of any severity, an appeals court has found in upholding an injured worker's $1.4 million award.
A worker has been refused $750,000 in damages from a major employer that allegedly injured him by causing him to be involuntarily detained under mental health laws.
A host employer has been ordered to pay a worker nearly $270,000 in damages for manual handling injuries he sustained after it switched his task to lifting 55kg objects, without training or supervision.
A worker has been awarded nearly $2 million in damages, after a court found his employer negligently allowed a defective alarm to be left unattended in an office, resulting in him sustaining whiplash injuries when it was accidentally activated.
