7 Sept 2017
Lundy v Accident Compensation Corporation (Entitlement to Weekly Compensation)
- Citation
- [2017] NZACC 101
- Court
- District Court
The Branch Medical Advisor's specialist opinion, which concluded the frozen shoulder began between 6 May and 12 June 2015 and was most likely idiopathic rather than caused by the earlier covered accidents, was a competent and persuasive basis for ACC's decisions. There was an identifiable break in the appellant's pain presentation and no specialist evidence to overturn the BMA's timing-based causation conclusion; therefore the frozen shoulder was not caused by a covered injury and the ACC decisions declining weekly compensation were correct.