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The High Court has quashed a ruling that a company is vicariously liable for the injury-causing act of an intoxicated employee urinating on a sleeping colleague in an accomodation facility.

A worker who aggravated his osteoarthritis, which led to a secondary knee condition, has been awarded compensation for both injuries, with a tribunal rejecting his employer's claim it isn't liable because the worker experienced pain for more than a year before he disclosed it.

A worker who got stuck in a workplace lift and had to physically force her way out has been denied ongoing compensation, with a tribunal finding her spinal condition and anxiety disorder were caused by underlying conditions present long before the work-related event.

A worker who was nearly hit by a B-double truck in a receiving yard, before being sacked for alleged misconduct, has been awarded an additional $140,000 in compensation, with a tribunal dismissing his former employer's defence of reasonable administrative action.

A tribunal deputy president has called for legislative amendments, in his ruling denying a lump sum payment to a "gravely injured" worker's son. The deputy president said the law unfairly required the "impossible" proof of the boy's exact date of conception.

An injured worker who continually dodged her return-to-work appointments was validly dismissed for "obfuscation", but her employer's overall handling of her termination made it unfair, a commission has ruled.

A worker's "serious cardiac symptoms" at work involved a "sudden physiological change", meaning he suffered a compensable "frank injury", a tribunal has ruled.

A worker has lost her claim that constant keyboard and mouse tasks, and her employer's mismanagement of her overuse injury, are the causes of her chronic pain - years after she ceased work.

A worker has failed in his renewed bid for compensation for a mental condition blamed on "systemic bullying". He failed to convince the Federal Court a tribunal overlooked a "very clear aggravation-type issue".

A tribunal has agreed to "undercut" a nearly 20-year-old workers' compensation approval and reject a worker's new claim, finding her 2005 lumbar injury - initially blamed on poor seating arrangements at a work event - was caused by a degenerative spinal condition and not work-related.