12 Sept 1996
MM v Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Corporation
- Citation
- [1996] NZACC 79
- Court
- District Court
The court held that pregnancy following a failed tubal ligation does not constitute personal injury by accident and, in any event, the appellant did not establish medical misadventure under s.5 because the severity requirement was not met and the causal chain was broken by the intervening act of sexual intercourse; appeal dismissed.
- Medical misadventure
- Pregnancy as personal injury
- Causation and intervening act
- Severity and rarity requirements
- Statutory interpretation of s.5