14 Dec 2000
Middleton-Echave v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2000] NZACC 335
- Court
- District Court
On the balance of probabilities there was insufficient evidence that the hernia was caused by a single event or series of events involving external force as required for an ACC 'accident'; therefore the respondent's decision to decline cover for a single-event injury is confirmed, but the matter is remitted for ACC to consider a claim for gradual process injury under s.33.