11 Jul 2008
Resetar v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2008] NZACC 159
- Court
- District Court
Necessity for the purposes of s32 must be assessed by reference to the circumstances and clinical knowledge at the time of treatment; where the personal injury was a necessary part or ordinary consequence of treatment on that basis, s32 does not provide cover even if later tissue analysis shows the procedure was unnecessary in hindsight.