31 Oct 2016
T v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2016] NZACC 292
- Court
- District Court
The appellant failed to prove a qualifying mental injury causally linked to Schedule 3 sexual offences after 1 April 2002: the diagnosed Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder was not linked to sexual abuse, the Personality Disorder NOS formed a continuum with pre-2002 conditions and therefore predated the qualifying period, and no expert definitively diagnosed PTSD causally tied to the Schedule 3 events; accordingly no cover under s21 was established.