Specialty Group: Insurance Law

Authors: Stephen White, Partner and Rebecca Wilson, Solicitor It’s official!  Labour hire workers are at greater risk of being injured at work than ordinary employees.1 Workers’ compensation premiums for l ...

Authors: Stephen White, Partner and Milton Latta, Senior Associate In our last Insurance newsletter, we discussed liability issues arising out of the decision in Paskins v Hail Creek Coal Pty Ltd[2017] QSC 190. Thi ...

The last 20 years has seen a significant shift from companies utilising full time workers to part-time, casual and especially labour hire personnel.  In addition, many companies have structured their operational arr ...

This rare referral to the High Court makes clear that the narrative test of serious injury laid down by the Victorian Supreme Court in Humphries v Poljak1 25 years ago remains good law. There must be a subjecti ...