Injured SA workers to receive higher compensation payouts thanks to High Court ruling

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Injured South Australian workers will be entitled to hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of additional compensation following a High Court ruling against ReturnToWorkSA.

Injured South Australian workers will be entitled to hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of additional compensation following a High Court ruling.The ruling will broaden how ReturnToWorkSA assesses compensation for multiple injuriesThe man at the centre of the complex legal case, Shane Summerfield, said he hoped it would make it easier for others to get adequate payouts.

ReturnToWorkSA argued it was not obliged to compensate him for those impairments, but the full court of the Supreme Court ruled in Mr Summerfield's favour, effectively entitling him to an additional $65,000 in compensation. "I was tempted to give up several times but Kathleen said, 'No, we'll hang in there, you'll be right.'

Business SA chief executive Martin Haese said he was "disappointed" and "highly concerned" about the implications of the ruling.

 

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