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    Compensation for workplace injury leading to suicide in Australia

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    Authors
    Guthrie, Rob
    Westaway, Jennifer
    Date
    2010
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Guthrie, R. and Westaway, J. 2010. Compensation for workplace injury leading to suicide in Australia. Journal of Law and Medicine. 18 (2): pp. 333-343.
    Source Title
    Journal of Law and Medicine
    ISSN
    1320159X
    School
    Graduate School of Business
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4168
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Workplace-related death by suicide raises a number of difficult issues in the context of workers compensation. On first reading, workers compensation statutes usually prevent recovery of compensation where an injury is self-inflicted, suggesting that compensation for suicide will be excluded. Additionally, compensation is usually denied when the nexus between employment and injury is broken which is frequently the defence to any claim by the dependants of workers who takes their own life following a work injury. This article examines the Australian landscape in relation to the evolution of principles that apply to consideration of workers compensation claims where suicide is an element.

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