31 Jan 2014
Jacobsen v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2014] NZACC 23
- Court
- District Court
The medical assessment (VIMA) was inadequate because it failed to evaluate how chronic pain, pain medication and the claimant's depression would physiologically and cognitively affect her ability to sustain 30 or more hours per week in the seven identified work types and failed to require or explain work trials or completion of an essential multidisciplinary pain management programme; the court preferred the treating occupational physician (Dr Berry) who limited sustainable hours and recommended work trials and further rehabilitation, and accordingly the respondent's decision was quashed and…