article_snippet: A compensation payout should cover future medical costs and living expenses, not go towards paying for four TV sets, a pool table, a ride-on mower, a gaming machine, model cars, and fishing gear.
article_snippet: This never dawned on a Canberra man who was awarded more than $1 million in worker's compensation and spent almost all of This on these luxury items in just four months.
article_snippet: A bloke got $3 million, mate, and blew it all away.'
article_snippet: Lawyer Sam Macedoni told A Current Affair that Mr Cooper failed to structure Lawyer Sam Macedoni compensation payout to provide for Mr Cooper future needs. '
article_snippet: Some of it is for medical expenses, some of it is for income you won't be able to earn and some for other reasons, so you just can't go and blow it,' Lawyer Sam Macedoni said.
article_snippet: ‘Jeez, it might be another payout.'