A company has been granted permission to challenge a $237,000 damages award and ruling that it negligently contributed to a worker's injury, with an appeals court finding the trial judge failed to address the central issue of whether the worker was actually directed to perform the injury-causing task.
A judge has granted a worker permission to pursue damages for pain and suffering caused by a crush injury incurred in his employment back in 2011, dismissing a regulator's contention it could be inferred, from surveillance footage of equipment on his vehicle and other factors, that his claims weren't credible.
A worker diagnosed with a psychologically driven pain syndrome, after falling at work a decade ago, has been awarded about $650,000 in damages, with a judge finding her employer negligently failed to tackle the risk of slipping on tiles.
An employer has overturned a hefty damages bill, with a superior court finding an injured employee failed to prove his musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) was caused by the company's OHS breaches.
Lack of action by an employer to introduce changes to work methods following a vehicle rollaway incident resulted in catastrophic injuries to one of its workers, who has been awarded nearly $1.6 million in damages.
A company that was convicted and fined over an apprentice's severe electric-shock injuries has been blocked from recovering, from its insurer, any damages and compensation paid to the worker, with an appeals court finding its director was "indifferent to whether any action was taken to prevent" the electrical risk.
Despite the fact that an employer was negligent in the way it managed an injured worker's return-to-work plan, a superior court has confirmed this negligence wasn't the cause of her subsequent anxiety and depressive illness.
The High Court has found a lawyer's tasks were so "inherently and obviously dangerous to the psychiatric health" of employees that her employer, the Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions, had been duty-bound to proactively implement the protective measures identified in its policies.
An employer and a site occupier have both been found negligent over a tag-out failure that resulted in a defective platform being used, causing a worker to suffer an incapacitating back injury.
