A recent Supreme Court of Appeal judgment has provided new guidance on COIDA cover and when employers may be exposed to direct claims for damages by employees...
Workers' Compensation Act to get first overhaul in 23 years...
Justin Brown 28 Sep 2020
There has been steady decrease in accidents on mines over the past few years, but will the elusive zero harm ever be achieved?..
There have been many cases of workplace injury victims suffering unnecessarily for extended periods of time, only because they didn't know that they had extensive legal rights at their disposal...
Boris Dzhingarov, Issued by Monetary Library 2 Nov 2016
Can long-term pain and disability be predicted in individuals recovering from non-life-threatening orthopaedic injuries? A team of Australian researchers writing in The Journal of Pain, the peer review journal of the American Pain Society, www.ampainsoc.org, says yes and believes psychological factors, such as pessimism about recovery and depression, are major predictors of chronic pain in trauma patients.