19 Mar 2014
Hughes v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2014] NZACC 57
- Court
- District Court
The Court held ACC correctly treated the company payments as remuneration for the 2004-05 year (supported by the accountants' advice and company accounts) and therefore correctly abated weekly compensation; appellant did not receive the back payment in good faith given the contemporaneous accounting treatment and his failure to disclose ongoing remuneration, and in any event his payments to the company were voluntary advances that did not establish the causal, irreversible alteration of position required by s251(2); estoppel against ACC did not apply. Appeal dismissed.