Employers have differing notions of what is a safe weight to lift at work. Some think it is 15kg. Most think it is about 25kg. Alarmingly, some think it is as much as 50kg. Is there a maximum weight a worker can lift safely?
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Credibility is the must-have attribute of a plaintiff if he or she is to succeed in a claim for damages. The recent decision of Bergin v Queensland Cork & Timber Solutions Pty Ltd [2019] QDC 141 is a stark reminder of that.
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We are interested in hearing from personal injury lawyers looking for a different approach to practising law.
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Hughes & Lewis Legal was named as one of the leading Workers’ Compensation & Workcover Law Firms in 2018.
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Workplace incidents do happen, but it’s how they are investigated and handled that can make all the difference to your organisation.
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For many years now, work-related aggravations of pre-existing conditions have been covered by WorkCover, regardless of what caused the original pre-existing condition.
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Accidents happen all the time, in all areas of our busy lives and for all kinds of reasons. But they are particularly emotive and stressful when they result in an injury to one of your workers.
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In personal injury circles there is a tendency to focus on compensation after an injury as a means of restoring injured people to, or as close as possible to, the position they would otherwise be in if not for the injury.
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The actions of some Victorian police officers have recently been called into question following footage being released of a disabled pensioner and Sudanese-born Melbourne man being detained, pinned down, hit, kicked and hosed.
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A quick-start guide to the process of making a compensation claim.
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Back in September 2015 I published an article about why the overwhelming majority of WorkCover damages claims settle out of court. Back then, in fact, out-of-court settlements were by far the most common way of resolving injury compensation claims generally, not just WorkCover claims.
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Just about everyone who brings an injury compensation claim in Queensland these days is legally represented on what lawyers term a “speculative basis”, meaning they only pay their lawyers if their claim is successful. In the wider community, this is known as “no win no fee” and rarely do four short simple words incite such polarised views.
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For years we have been hearing and living with the effects of increased automation, artificial intelligence and technological developments, which have changed the way we shop, interact, drive and live.
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