Resources

Future economic loss and paid services past retirement age

Cameron v Foster & Lahey T/AS GF Hills Removals & Mini Storage, 29 September 2011. This case study highlights how a Court may rule future economic loss allowances to workers past the age of retirement and make allowances for future paid services that were provided gratuitously by family members.

Employers have a duty to train and instruct workers on safe truck exiting

Kelleher v J & A Accessories Pty Ltd [2018] QSC 227 - Brisbane Supreme Court. The Plaintiff was a 45 year old sales representative / delivery driver who alleged he sustained lower back and psychiatric injuries as a result of repetitively lifting vehicle batteries weighing over 20kg between 2012 and 2013; and exiting from the cabin of an Isuzu NPR 300 truck on 21 August 2013.

Initial reporting of injury of vital importance

Apolloni v Traffic Technologies Management Division Pty Ltd, 20 March 2012. This case clearly demonstrates the value of contemporaneous recording of injury details in diary notes, incident reports and applications for compensation. In this case the importance of the recording was as to the time of the injury but this could equally apply to the description of the cause of the injury.