23 Mar 2012
Wood v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2012] NZACC 99
- Court
- District Court
Contemporaneous medical records and the claimant's own contemporaneous questionnaire evidence indicate a problem of gradual onset; the treating surgeon did not opine that the labral tear was most probably caused by a single traumatic event and excluded congenital/degenerative explanations but acknowledged the tear could have arisen gradually and only become symptomatic on 24 February 2007; accordingly the appellant failed to prove on the balance of probabilities that his condition resulted from an accidental personal injury rather than a gradual process and the decision declining cover was co…