Pleased to see the fish got a mention.
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Pleased to see the fish got a mention.
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Please tell me you're joking?
You must be an American lawyer.
Litigation of this type is out of control.
Her Company should fire her because if she considers herself to have been on the clock to the degree she could sue them, they can claim they never told her to have sex, I'm sure her contract includes some clause they could use.
if she was shagging strangers in the office i'm sure she'd be sent down the road PDQ.
She would be well advised to sue her partner for engaging in unsafe sex practice. Clearly she was entitled to some head and facial covering apparatus at the time.
The earth moved, shaking the hotel and the fixture came loose from the bedhead, long before she did, obviously.
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Fck sakes...she has no case and no brains...end it...suck it up buttercup...
Compensation, ffs...go take a flying fck at a rolling doughnut...then sue the bakery shop when you break your dick...no offence Richard...
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Some of the claims succeeding at the moment in Aussie are a disgrace. This isn't the USA.
This dumb fok slipped on her stairs while working from home and gets compo FFS. Never mind that the dumb cont foks it up for anyone else that wants to work from home as employers are now shit scared of the consequences.
Telstra forced to pay costs, compensation after worker Dale Hargreaves slips working at home | News.com.au
A woman called 'dale' :rolleyes:
fokin silly bint
It took them FOUR YEARS to reach the verdict?????????Quote:
Originally Posted by brettandlek
A public servant who injured herself while having sex on a work trip has won a compensation case.
The Federal Government employee, who cannot be named, was injured in 2007 when a glass light fitting came away from the wall above a bed as she was having sex with a man.
The incident took place in a motel room in a country town in New South Wales.
The woman said the light hit her in the face, injuring her nose, mouth and a tooth and also causing a psychiatric adjustment disorder.
The Government's workplace safety body, ComCare, rejected the woman's compensation claim and its decision was also upheld by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
But today she won an appeal against those decisions in the Federal Court.
Her employer has also been ordered to pay her court costs.
The judge, John Nicholas, said the appeals tribunal had erred in saying that the woman had to prove her injury had been caused by an activity that had been "implied" or "encouraged" by her employer.
Justice Nicholas said if the woman had been injured playing cards in her motel room she would get compensation, and that the incident was no different.
Public servant wins compo over work trip sex injury - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Dumb slapper gets handout from employer for spreading her legs on her own time. WTF? How can her employer be responsible for the dodgy light fitting in a hotel. The responsibility is clearly the hotel's and nothing to do with her employer. These foked up worksafe payouts are going to fok stuff up for other people who have to travel for work and have to start putting up with restrictoins and rules on their travel arrangements. Truly foked up is this.
Foking stupid slag.
'and also causing a psychiatric adjustment disorder'
Jesus, pull the other one its got fuking bells on you dumb-arse slag.
Only in America. Jesus can you sue someone for farting in the same room as you there?
Except this was in Australia.Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
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Originally Posted by Koojo
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Originally Posted by Koojo
Eh....?Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
^ & ^^ :)
Fuked up (not you Harry, although...).
Harry maybe read more post less.:smileylaughing:Quote:
Originally Posted by Looper
Mental.
And Harry, you're a dope.
I doubt that even the hotel is liable, as she was using the light fitting in a manner it was not designed for, nor could be reasonably assumed to be for.Quote:
Dumb slapper gets handout from employer for spreading her legs on her own time. WTF? How can her employer be responsible for the dodgy light fitting in a hotel. The responsibility is clearly the hotel's and nothing to do with her employer. These foked up worksafe payouts are going to fok stuff up for other people who have to travel for work and have to start putting up with restrictoins and rules on their travel arrangements. Truly foked up is this.
Well she's seen the light..!
Praise the lord...!!
Why? she is not the victim of a violent sexual attack. Plenty of far more privacy deserving individuals have their name and photos released to the press.Quote:
Originally Posted by Looper
Seems to me the only reason she needs her identity protected is to prevent scorn being poured on her for her derisory attempt to find someone to blame for her misadventure not to mention her grasping attempt to turn it into a financial windfall. She has obviously persuaded the powers that be that since she is a bird and this involves a sexual encounter that it is a 'delicate' matter and her 'tender' feelings might get hurt in the glare of any media attention. What a dummy she has sold this judge. Abysmal does not begin to describe the depths to which this trollop bottomfeeder's behaviour sinks.
Jesus wept it's like a global fucking cancer then.
That will teach me to only read the first few paras.
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Originally Posted by Looper
See earlier thread :
https://teakdoor.com/world-news/94424...ght-falls.html
Australian wins compensation over sex mishap
Dec 17, 2012
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian bureaucrat who was injured while having sex in a motel room during a business trip has won a five-year legal battle against the federal government for worker’s compensation.
The Associated Press on Monday read the reasons the Full Bench of the Federal Court gave on Dec. 13 for rejecting an appeal by the government’s insurer Comcare against an earlier court declaration that the woman was injured in the course of her employment.
The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was staying in a motel in the town of Nowra, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of her hometown of Sydney, on Nov. 26, 2007, when she had sex with a male friend in her room. She was then aged in her late 30s.
During the sex, a glass light fitting was torn from its mount above the bed and landed on her face, injuring her nose and mouth. The courts have not decided on whether the woman or the man dislodged the light, ruling that factor irrelevant to the case.
The woman was treated in hospital for her injuries. She later suffered depression and was unable to continue working for the government.
Her claim for worker’s compensation for her physical and psychological injuries was initially approved by Comcare then rejected after further investigation.
She unsuccessfully appealed to the government’s Administrative Appeals Tribunal which reviews bureaucrats’ decisions. The tribunal agreed with Comcare that her injuries were not suffered in the course of her employment.
The tribunal found that the government had not induced or encouraged the woman’s sexual conduct and could not have reasonably expected that she would have contemplated it.
The tribunal also found the sex was “not an ordinary incident of an overnight stay” such as showering, sleeping and eating.
The woman won an appeal in the Federal Court on April 19, 2012, when Judge John Nicholas rejected the tribunal’s findings that the sex had to be condoned by the government if she were to qualify for compensation.
“If the applicant had been injured while playing a game of cards in her motel room, she would be entitled to compensation even though it could not be said that her employer induced her to engage in such activity,” Nicholas wrote in his judgment in favor of the woman receiving compensation.
In the Full Bench decision, Judges Patrick Keane, Robert Buchanan and Mordy Bromberg agreed last week that the government’s views on the woman having sex in her motel room were irrelevant.
“No approval, express or implied, of the respondent’s conduct was required,” they said.
It is not yet clear how much compensation the woman will be paid.
Comcare was on Monday considering an appeal to the High Court, Australia’s highest legal authority, Comcare spokesman Russ Street said.
“The issue is a significant one,” Street said in a statement. “Workers need to be clear about their entitlements and employers should have an understanding of their responsibilities and how to support their staff.”
asiancorrespondent.com
Faaaark me. That's :bsflag:
Cant find original thread but this is the conclusion since the High Court is the last stop (a victory for common sense!):
A public servant who was injured while having sex in a motel room during a work trip is not eligible for compensation, the High Court has ruled.
The Federal Government employee, who cannot be named, was injured in 2007 when a light fitting was dislodged and fell on her as she was having sex with a man.
The incident took place in a motel room in a country town in New South Wales, where the woman, aged in her 30s, and another employee had travelled for work.
Her employer had booked her into the motel room.
The woman said the light hit her in the face, injuring her nose, mouth and a tooth and also causing a psychiatric adjustment disorder. ( wtf?! :rolleyes: )
She was taken to hospital for treatment.
Audio: Court rules motel sex injury warrants compensation (PM)
The Government's workplace safety body, ComCare, initially accepted her compensation claim, but it was later revoked and the decision was also upheld by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
In April 2012, the woman won an appeal against those decisions in the Federal Court. Her employer was also ordered to pay her court costs.
The judge in that case, John Nicholas, said the appeals tribunal had erred in saying that the woman had to prove her injury had been caused by an activity that had been "implied" or "encouraged" by her employer.
Justice Nicholas said if the woman had been injured playing cards in her motel room she would get compensation, and that the incident was no different.
However, ComCare lodged an appeal against the Federal Court decision on four grounds, including that the court was wrong in finding the woman's injuries were caused "in the course of her employment".
Today, the High Court accepted ComCare's case that is was not liable because the incident happened after hours.
High Court rules out compensation for public servant injured during work trip sex - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)