4 Apr 2014
Walding v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2014] NZACC 87
- Court
- District Court
The VIMA was legally inadequate because it failed to visibly analyse and reconcile conflicting medical and functional evidence (FRP, IMA, FCEs) and did not show that rehabilitation and pain‑management options had been exhausted; the vocational independence decision made within a short timeframe was therefore premature and unsustainable, so the respondent's decision of 17 November 2011 is set aside and the reviewer decision quashed.