3 Dec 1999
Gibbons v Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Corporation
- Citation
- [1999] NZACC 351
- Court
- District Court
An assessor appointed under the regulations must apply the AMA Guides (Fourth Edition) using professional judgment and need not perform a mechanical checklist of the Guides; where there is a single assessment by a duly appointed assessor certifying compliance with the Guides the respondent and the Court are bound by that assessment, so the appeal fails when the assessor's certified impairment is below the statutory threshold.