A woman awarded compensation after sustaining an injury while having sex during a work trip could lose her payout in a new legal challenge.
The unnamed government employee received cuts to her face when a glass light fitting fell from the motel roof while she was having sex with a “male acquaintance”, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
The accident occurred in November 2007 while the public servant was attending a departmental meeting in a country town.
The woman filed for workers’ compensation, arguing the injury was sustained on a business trip but initially had her case thrown out by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
In April this year, she was awarded payment of an undisclosed sum by Federal Court Justice John Nicholas.
But a full sitting of the Federal Court bench is set to review the decision after ComCare, the government safety body ordered to pay her legal costs, appealed the decision.
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