2 Feb 2018
Hansen v Accident Compensation Corporation (Entitlement to Surgery)
- Citation
- [2018] NZACC 19
- Court
- District Court
The judge preferred the analyses of the orthopaedic reviewer, physiotherapy clinical advisor and CAP over the treating surgeon because the contemporaneous records recorded a different, less traumatic mechanism, the imaging demonstrated features consistent with longstanding degenerative/repetitive impingement (including paralabral cyst and osteochondral change) and the treating surgeon's causal opinion relied on an account of the mechanism that conflicted with earlier records; on the balance of probabilities causation by the 20 January 2014 accident was not established and the requested surger…