Two companies and a director have been ordered to pay more than $347,000 in damages to a worker, after a defectively welded and poorly inspected roller door component fell on the worker's head and caused serious long-term injuries.
In a long-running case that has gone to an appeals court twice, and examines the intentions of legislative amendments, an employer has failed to prove an injured worker was not connected with a jurisdiction with relatively generous common law rights.
A major supermarket's limited spill-control system - requiring workers to look out for spills and other hazards as they went about their normal jobs - "inevitably subordinated the detection" of hazards to the performance of other duties, an appeals court has found in a grape-slip case.
In a long-running state-of-connection case, a worker who was injured in NSW has, for the second time, been permitted to pursue damages in a jurisdiction with more generous common law rights, because he was "usually based" there.
An appeals court has upheld a multimillion-dollar damages ruling (with minor variations), confirming a contractor was vicariously liable for a technician's negligent act that caused four workers to sustain injuries in a jolting lift.
An employer's failure to address the obvious risks posed by its "incredibly cluttered" warehouse set off a "catastrophic" sequence of events, and has led to a $5.6 million damages award to an injured worker.
An employer has been ordered to pay $120,000 in damages to an office worker who was injured while running to answer the phone, in a case highlighting the risks posed by systems requiring staff to rush.
A worker with serious strain and lifting injuries has been awarded $1.3 million in damages, with a court finding his employer, a major joint-venture company, could have prevented the risks through simple precautions, including one involving a $400 spend.
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.