25 Aug 2017
Milne v Accident Compensation Corporation (Entitlement to Surgery)
- Citation
- [2017] NZACC 102
- Court
- District Court
The appeal was dismissed because the overall weight of medical and radiological evidence established multilevel degenerative cervical pathology unlikely to have been caused by the appellant's covered accidents (including 2000), the treating surgeon's contrary causation opinion was outweighed by consistent radiologist reports and multiple independent medical advisers, and there was insufficient contemporaneous evidence that the 2000 events caused traumatic disc injury requiring the funded surgery.