9 May 1995
Hodgson v Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Corporation
- Citation
- [1995] NZACC 52
- Court
- District Court
The appeal is dismissed because under the 1992 Act social rehabilitation can only be provided as authorised by regulations; the applicable regulations limited provision of beds and required either a specialist prescription or that the bed be designed to aid treatment in a way not shown by the evidence; Professor Rothwell's report was an opinion not a prescription and the ordinary firm bed did not qualify as a bed "designed to aid treatment" under the regulations, so the Corporation correctly declined the claim.