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Levy Review Panel Overturns WorkCover’s Imposition of Supplementary Levy for the Employer’s Alleged Failure to provide Suitable Duties (May 2009)

Compensation fraud is simply not worth the risk! (March 2008)

Full Supreme Court Quashes Minister’s Decision
Employing less than 200 workers is not a bar to renewing exempt status
TXU v Minister for Industrial Relations [2005] SASC 490

Order for indemnity costs against worker in vexatious claims
Kowalski v Mitsubishi Australia Ltd [2003] SAWCT 48
SA Workers Compensation Tribunal

Controlling Vexatious Litigants
Kowalski v Mitsubishi Motors Australia [2004] SAWCT 24
SA Workers Compensation Tribunal

Damages Claim Against Nursing Home Dismissed
Chan v Barter (trading as Pembroke Nursing Home) [2003] SADC 5
South Australian District Court

Workers Compensation Fraud (Civil)
Workers Compensation Tribunal upholds Mitsubishi’s application for summary judgment
Dolling v Mitsubishi Motors Australia Ltd [2004] SAWCT 22

Section 36(4) does not apply to section 38A and section 39 reductions
G H Michell & Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd v Golding [2003] SAWCT 13
SA Workers Compensation Tribunal

Workers Compensation Fraud – Supreme Court dismisses Worker’s appeal against conviction
Dolling v Waite [2003] SASC 400

Medical Malpractice
The Delivery of Bad News is an Unenviable Task, But Should an Adverse Reaction Give Rise to a Valid Claim for Negligence?