18 Aug 2010
Heemskerk v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2010] NZACC 133
- Court
- District Court
Clause 25(1A) required assessors to take pre-incapacity earnings into account but did not mandate automatic indexation to current dollars; a reasonable approach is to compare present-day earnings ranges for comparable jobs; the Reviewer properly applied that approach and reasonably upheld vocational independence for Sales Assistant while rejecting Seafood Process Worker; therefore the occupational assessment was not flawed and the appeal is dismissed.