26 Sept 1996
Jenkins v Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Corporation
- Citation
- [1996] NZACC 94
- Court
- District Court
Section 54(14) of the 1992 Act requires the assessed degree of disability to be reduced by the percentage of permanent impairment on which a prior s78 lump sum was based; applying that rule (reducing 69% by 66.3%) produced a residual 2.7% disability below the 10% threshold, therefore no entitlement to an independence allowance and the respondent's decision was upheld.