Tags: workers’ compensation

Stokes v Workers’ Compensation Regulator [2021] QIRC 211

Keywords: aggravation of degeneration, appeal, over period of time, s 32, Whether injury arose out of…
14 June 2021

Tyndall v Kestrel Coal Pty Ltd (No 3) [2021] QSC 119

Keywords: assessment of damages, causation, duty of care, future economic loss, s 305B of the Workers’…
27 May 2021

Schokman v CCIG Investments Pty Ltd [2021] QSC 120

Keywords: causation, drunken misadventure, scope of duty and breach, standard of care, vicarious liability, workers’ compensation
27 May 2021

Robertson v State of Queensland & Anor [2021] QCA 92

Keywords: breach of duty, Damage and causation, existence of duty, mental or nervous shock or psychiatric…
07 May 2021

Knight v CPSM Pty Ltd [2021] QDC 3

Keywords: chemical exposure, chemical hypersensitivity, duty of care, scope of duty and subsequent breach, standard of…
05 February 2021

O’Connell v Witham; TAC v Inroads Pty Ltd [2021] VSC 8

Keywords: apportionment of liabilities, contribution from roadworks contractor, contributory negligence, in the course of employment, injured…
22 January 2021

Wicks v Workers’ Compensation Regulator [2021] QIRC 001

Keywords: aggravation of psychological injury, appeal to Commission, application for compensation, Church, hearing de novo, limitation…
04 January 2021

Giles v State of Queensland [2020] QDC 332

Keywords: breach of duty, firefighter, first responders, psychiatric injury, workers’ compensation
18 December 2020

Motlap v Workers’ Compensation Regulator [2020] QIRC 196

Keywords: appeal against decision of the Regulator, credibility of witnesses, whether the appellant is a worker…
17 November 2020

Heesom v ASP Ship Management Pty Ltd [2020] NSWDC 653

Keywords: contributory negligence, foreseeability, negligence, stairway obstructed by stored hoses, worker falls down a stairway on…
02 November 2020

NG v Pharmacor [2020] VMC 21

Keywords: arising out of employment, express or implied inducement or encouragement, Hatzimanolis, in the course of…
07 October 2020

Filiposka v Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd [2020] NSWDC 540

Keywords: awkward lift and twist manoeuvre, back injury, breach of duty of care, chicken carcasses, contributory…
18 September 2020

Robertson v State of Queensland & Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service [2020] QDC 185

Keywords: bullying and harassment, duty to avoid psychiatric injury, foreseeability, psychiatric injury, workers’ compensation
06 August 2020

Pearce v Prescare [2020] QDC 149

Keywords: nature of injuries in dispute, pre-existing medical conditions, reduction of damages, workers’ compensation
03 July 2020

Khan v Workers Compensation Regulator [2020] QIRC 095

Keywords: appeal against decision of Workers Compensation Regulator, implementation of the performance management plan was reasonable…
24 June 2020

Peters v Wilkins Trust [2020] QDC 125

Keywords: expert evidence, foreseeable risk, intervening event, obvious risk, reasonable precautions against the risk of injury,…
10 June 2020