Jafarian v WildFire Interiors Pty Ltd [2021] NSWWCC 12 On 8 January 2021, Senior Arbitrator Glenn Capel found that the Applicant, Masoud Jafarian, was not a ‘worker’ in the...
Govier v The Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (Q) [2018] HCA Trans 65 (13 April 2018) In 2018, the High Court considered the extent to which an employer assumes...
Michael Burke v MetLife Insurance Limited [2019] NSWSC 177 The recent decision by Rees J in the New South Wales Supreme Court in Michael Burke v MetLife Insurance Limited [2019]...
PTSD & Death benefit claims Gaylene Ann Reakes v State of NSW & Ors (2019) NSWWCC 134 On 10 April 2019, Arbitrator Paul Sweeney found that Ian Mark Reakes (the deceased)...
RSM Building Services Pty Ltd v Hochbaum [2019] NSWWCCPD 15 Background In the recent decision of RSM Building Services Pty Ltd v Hochbaum [2019] NSWWCCPD 15 (18 April 2019)...
Chalkias v State of New South Wales [2018] NSWSC 1561 As set out in section 321 of the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (‘the WIMA), the primary...
By the very nature of claims for industrial injury, it is quite often the case that the injury was sustained some time prior to the date of notice being given to an employer. The...
There is some good news for NSW Firefighters who have been diagnosed with cancer with the introduction of the Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment (Firefighters) Act 2018...
Yildiz v Fullview Plastics Pty Ltd [2019] NSWWCCPD 24 This decision pertains to whether a non-exempt worker is entitled to receive lump sum compensation under the released s67 of...
