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    Injured truckie payout errors reversed

    Mar 10, 2021 3 minutes

    A TRUCK DRIVER will receive nearly $1 million in injury compensation after successfully appealing the original calculation.

    Daniel Peebles was awarded $764,345.12 by the Brisbane Supreme Court in early 2020 but the final figure becomes $967,052.92 after the Court of Appeal accepted errors over the driver’s total economic loss.

    Peebles, then 32-years-old, became ‘permanently incapacitated’ 2014 while driving for Kurtz Transport, due primarily to company negligence in providing a truck with a defective seat.

    A pre-existing back condition was

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