2 Aug 2010
Nieborg v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2010] NZACC 117
- Court
- District Court
Medical evidence established that the appellant's ongoing C6/7 foraminal stenosis and symptoms were predominately due to pre-existing degenerative disease (long segment cervical spondylosis/ankylosing spondylosis) and not a discrete compensable injury caused by the 2002 or 2005 accidents; aggravation or stirring up of that pre-existing condition was not a compensable injury, therefore ACC correctly suspended entitlements and the appeal is dismissed.