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An employer's efforts to address a worker's "unattainable" workload might have come too late, but the woman's psychological injury was barred from compensation, an appeals court has ruled, finding a previous decision applied the wrong reasonable management action test.

Two companies have been ordered to pay a worker a total of nearly $1.4 million in damages, after she was injured operating a defective vehicle in an incident that could have been prevented through clearer stop-work instructions.

A worker has overturned her conviction, and suspended jail sentence, for fraudulent injury compensation claims, with a court finding a prosecutor failed to disprove the possibility the woman's mother made the claims without her knowledge.

A 92-year-old Italian who lives on a Mediterranean island, and claims his dust disease resulted from a working holiday in Australia 70 years ago, is a "worker" within the meaning of Queensland's injury laws, a commission has ruled.

A worker who injured her back while lifting heavy trays has been awarded nearly $160,000 in damages, after a court found her employer negligently failed to provide proper manual handling training or enforce a 10kg lifting limit.

An injured worker spent the majority of his time working in a state with relatively generous damages entitlements, but his employment was connected to another jurisdiction, where he "turned up for work each day", a court has found.

A commission has overturned a decision to deny compensation to a worker exposed to p-rnographic material and abusive outbursts from her manager, rejecting a regulator's claims that the two had a civil relationship and the worker's psychiatric injury arose from reasonable management action.

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A superior court has warned against placing "undue focus" on employment contracts when determining an injured worker's state of connection, in finding a chef's employment is connected to a state with more generous common law rights than the jurisdiction an insurer claims it belongs to.

A commission has upheld a decision to deny compensation to a worker who suffered an aggravation of her psychiatric illness from an interaction with her supervisor, ruling the supervisor's imperfect actions were reasonable enough under injury laws.