24 Jun 2016
Rayner v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2016] NZACC 176
- Court
- District Court
The appeal was dismissed because the appellant failed to establish on the balance of probabilities an unbroken chain of incapacity from cessation of work in August 2011 linked to his covered injury; absence of contemporaneous medical evidence, conflicting GP notes suggesting redundancy and non‑injury stressors, reliance on a retrospective psychiatric opinion based principally on the appellant’s account, and eight years of continued work with similar symptoms made retrospective certification unpersuasive and insufficient to meet the claimant’s evidential burden.