Tag: Psychiatric Injury
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The mandate for proactive psychosocial engineering—The High Court restores Kozarov’s landmark PTSD award
Case summary snapshot Within the administrative routine of professional service firms, corporate offices, and high-exposure public sector agencies, managing psychological trauma has historically been treated as a reactive human resources function. Boardrooms operated under a legacy legal assumption: unless an individual employee formally raised a hand, submitted a written complaint, or explicitly requested an adjusted…
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The cost of disregarding the workplace voice—The $5.2 Million bullying retaliation precedent
In one of the most severe general protections decisions in Australian industrial history, the Federal Court of Australia has fundamentally redefined the financial stakes of mismanaging internal safety grievances. In the milestone judgment of Roohizadegan v TechnologyOne Limited (No 2) [2020] FCA 1407, the court ordered an enterprise software employer and its chief executive to…
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Tortious Evolution: The Forensic Reclassification of PTSD as a Bodily Injury
For decades, common law legal systems maintained a strict separation between physical trauma and psychological damage. Within personal injury frameworks, workers seeking damages under specialized insurance schemes frequently faced severe legal hurdles if their condition lacked a direct physical injury. A fascinating case handled by the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Casey v Pel-Air…