19 Mar 2014
Richards v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2014] NZACC 60
- Court
- District Court
The reviewer erred by failing to consider the 1986 sacral fracture as a relevant covered injury and by treating the review as limited to the 1995 and 2009 events; the weight of competent medical opinion supported that the 1986 injury was the inciting event causing subsequent disc degeneration and materially contributed to the need for surgery, so the Corporation's suspension of entitlements was quashed and must be set aside.