WORKERS’ COMPENSATION – legal test for aggravation – whether Tribunal erred in finding work-related aggravation of respondent’s hyperacusis in circumstances where it also found neither hyperacusis nor underlying hearing loss and tinnitus was work-caused – whether Tribunal failed to grapple with the applicant’s submission there was merely a temporary worsening of hyperacusis symptoms in the workplace not amounting to compensable aggravation – Australian Postal Corporation v Bessey [2001] FCA 266; 32 AAR 508 considered – no error of law – appeal dismissed. Comcare v Reardon [2015] FCA 1166 (4 November 2015).
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