The "palpable" difference in a worker's wrist symptoms between home and work showed her workplace computer duties caused her pain response and significantly contributed to her tendonitis linked to a congenital condition, a tribunal has ruled.
A tribunal has granted a regulator access to an injured worker's medical records from 13 different entities, finding her objections around privacy were understandable but outweighed by other considerations.
The Federal Court has ordered a redetermination of whether a worker's injury was caused by customer aggression or reasonable administrative action, finding an earlier decision in favour of the man failed to apply the correct legal test.
A tribunal has expressed sympathy for an injured worker's frustrations with his compensation claim, finding a major employer failed to provide him with clear advice or fulfil its obligations to assess his application properly.
A court has rejected a worker's claim that her employer unlawfully threatened to lodge a workers' compensation claim, against her will, after she raised safety concerns affecting her mental health.
A worker who was assaulted and suffered a serious brain injury, while on a winery tour during a "short absence" from his employment, has been denied compensation, with a tribunal rejecting his claims around being encouraged to take leave and consume alcohol.
A worker is entitled to incapacity payments for a period of unemployment that followed the unexpected termination of his new job contract, nearly 15 years after a work injury took him out of his original role, a tribunal has found.
A worker's 1993 work-related heart attack was not the "effective or operative cause" of his 2020 death, a tribunal has ruled in finding intervening risk factors "snapped" the chain of causation.
A worker suffered psychological injuries from bored colleagues targeting her to "pass the time", according to a judgment that also condemns a major employer for traumatising the vulnerable worker in a liability "witch hunt".