Disability service cops $1.8m fine for burns death

LiveBetter has been fined $1.8 million after an Indigenous woman woman died from burns. (Stephanie Gardiner/AAP PHOTOS)

A disability support provider has been fined $1.8 million after admitting serious shortfalls in staff training that led to a vulnerable Indigenous woman dying from burns after being given a bath.

Kyah Lucas suffered burns to 35 to 40 per cent of her body when she was bathed at her home in Orange, in central-west NSW, by two workers from NDIS provider LiveBetter on February 2, 2022.