17 May 2018
Wigg v Accident Compensation Corporation (Funding for Surgery)
- Citation
- [2018] NZACC 76
- Court
- District Court
Medical evidence including imaging and specialist advice established pre-existing degenerative pathology (pars defects and facet arthropathy) that became symptomatic after the event but was not caused by the single lifting event; therefore no causal link existed between the covered accident and the surgical treatment sought and ACC's decision declining funding was correct and must be upheld.