Personal Injury - Articles
2.5m Win For Construction Worker
Taylor & Scott recently obtained a Judgment in the Supreme Court on behalf of an injured worker who sued his employer and his host employer.
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Fall at Restaurant Client Secures Compensation Payout
Our client attended a local restaurant with family members one evening. Having had an extremely pleasant dinner, our client and her family were leaving the restaurant. As our client walked along, her feet shot out from...
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Falling Steel Plate – Foot Amputation Large Compensation Payout Secured
Our client was a formwork carpenter who after many years in the construction industry decided to retrain as a crane rigger and dogman. His employer sent him to work on various construction sites. At the time of his accid...
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Lifetime of Heavy Lifting Results in Permanent Back injury Large Payout Secured for Migrant Worker
Our client migrated to Australia in the early 70s. With a young family to support, he secured employment with a scaffolding and plant hire company. Over the next several years, his work required him to continually bend, ...
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Struck in Back by Metal Pipe – Labourer Wins Substantial Damages
Our client was employed by a labour-hire company who then sent him out to work for various construction companies. On this occasion, he had been sent to assist a demolition company who had the contract to demolish a buil...
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Lifetime of Labouring Results in Three Compensation Claims
Our client worked in the construction industry all of his working life. He usually worked around sixty hours per week. Over the last fifteen years, he had suffered a number of injuries and noticed that his physical condition was deteriorating. In the early 2000s, he injured his knee.
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Essential things to know about pedestrian accidents
Pedestrians accidents are more common than we realise. The Roads and Maritime Services show an increasing trend in pedestrian fatalities from 2014 to present.
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What is the difference between TTD and TPD claims?
New superannuation laws came into effect from 1 July 2019. The new laws brought about several changes, including automatic cancellation of insurance for inactive accounts. These changes may have left you wondering what i...
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Scaffolder Wins Negligence Claim and Substantial Damages Payout
Working as a scaffolder/rigger is heavy, physically demanding work. Our client worked long hours six days a week constructing and bracing scaffolds, lifting and carrying scaffolding pipes, hammering metal in odd awkward ...
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Fall Through Unsecure Formwork Deck - Lucky to be Alive
Our client worked as a concreter. He loved his job. Working long hours six days a week was tough. Physical fitness is a pre-requisite as his days were spent kneeling, squatting, screeding and walking over decking and rei...
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Run in with boss results in back injury and successful work injury damages claim
Our client was a labourer and machine operator working for a company in country NSW. His work involved operating excavators and dump trucks. The work was reasonably light, and our client loved his job. At one point our c...
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Struck by falling box, shopper wins compensation
Our client is married with two young children. One day she dropped her children at school and arranged to meet a girlfriend at the local shopping centre for some "retail therapy". They entered a kitchen shop at the centr...
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