Ana Keres

Kate* is a lovely 58 years old retiree. Up until her accident, she was enjoying a more relaxed time in her life. All her children have grown up and lived away from home. She started to get into health & fitness. She was walking 8 km every day. One evening, Kate was taking a walk around her neighbourhood.  It was 9:30 at night, past sunset. The area is residential with...

Jianping, an older Asian woman, was injured very badly while working in a factory. The assembly line was too high for her and her employee addressed the issue by giving her a milk crate to stand on. One day while working on the assembly line she slipped off the crate and shattered her knee, never to be able to walk normally again. Trusting Henry Carus and Associates with her claim,...

Nora was employed as an Office Commercial Cleaner who suffered injuries to her shoulder and back in the course of her employment. She underwent right shoulder surgery but had limited benefit and could not see any hope of improvement with further surgery. In the end she was left with a total inability to return to employment. She came to us for advice noting she only really speaks Spanish. Fortunately, we...

Lei was injured in a motor vehicle accident when she was walking to pick her son up from school. Crossing on a green pedestrian light she was hit by a driver who failed to give way because she was distracted. The high speed impact caused a nasty injury to Lei’s neck. Following consultations with two different surgeons and attempts at conservative treatment Lei decided not to undergo major surgery to...

Kathi was shopping at a local shopping centre. She had parked her car in the underground car park at the centre and was walking through the car park towards the entrance to the shops. She slipped on engine oil in one of the parking bays and fell,  landing heavily and badly injuring her shoulder. Kathi’s case needed detailed investigations to get to the bottom of who actually bore responsibility for...

Olivia came to Henry Carus + Associates after suffering a serious injury to her back when the chair she was sitting on at a restaurant collapsed. Olivia’s life and her ability to continue running her business was severely impacted by the injury.

Chi Hong is an example of us persisting with a claim, no matter how small the claim may be. Chi Hong came to us after she slipped on liquid at a well-known shopping centre in her community. She landed on her knee after the fall, resulting in a fracture that required surgery. Fortunately for Chi Hong, she recovered well from her injury. The Medical Panel found that she did not...

Before her accident, Fiona was a happy and healthy person. On the day of the accident,  Fiona was completing her grocery shopping at her local supermarket. She was walking through the fruit and vegetable section when she slipped on a piece of spinach, causing her to fall and suffer injuries to her knee and her outstretched hand. Months after the accident took place, Fiona found that the injuries she suffered...

Penelope is a young woman who has been working as an administration assistant for the past decade.   On the day of the incident, Penelope was instructed by her employer to move a large object to an outside location in wet, rainy conditions. Unfortunately, she fell over and suffered a serious fracture to her leg. After surgery, and a long and difficult recovery, Penelope was able to return to work...

Colleen met with us after tripping on a footpath whilst on her daily walk around her neighborhood. A section of the concrete footpath on her street had been excavated for water works which she did not see. Sadly we discovered that the organisations responsible for excavating the footpath failed to do anything to repair the footpath when the works were completed. Not only that, nothing was done to cordon off...