A recent case before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal shows that, even when injuries are found to have been sustained in the course of employment, an employee can have no entitlement to compensation.
In the recent case of McQuitty v Midgley [2016] QSC 36, the Queensland Supreme Court re-evaluated the test for assessing the likelihood of a future hypothetical event occurring.
On 1 October 2015, the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (QIRC) commenced a new process for dealing with appeals against review decisions of the Workers’ Compensation Regulator.
In the recent case of Woolworths Limited v Perrins [2015] QCA 207, the Queensland Court of Appeal examined the scope and extent of an employer’s duty of care to avoid causing psychiatric injury to employees.
The Industrial Court of Queensland (ICQ) recently handed down a decision (Blackwood v Civeo Pty Ltd), which will affect certain claims for workers’ compensation.
In Waugh v Simon Blackwood (Workers’ Compensation Regulator) [2015] ICQ 028, the Industrial Court of Queensland highlighted the breadth of an employer’s potential liability for activities undertaken by its staff, even where such activities have little connection with the employer’s business.
There is a tussle taking place in the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission regarding the right of an employer to be heard in an appeal by a worker against a decision of the Regulator. Two recent cases have come to very different conclusions in relation to the employer’s right to be heard.
In this case, the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission has found that ‘a nothing event’ was able to cause an aggravation to a previous work related neck injury, thereby allowing the worker to receive further compensation to cover the period of the aggravation.
On 17 September 2015 the Queensland Parliament passed a Bill to amend the Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (WCRA). The amendment saw significant changes to the WCRA and took effect from 9 October 2015.