9 Aug 2017
Topp v Accident Compensation Corporation (Vocational Independence)
- Citation
- [2017] NZACC 92
- Court
- District Court
On the evidence the VIOA was not flawed and supported vocational independence as at 10 December 2014, but the VIMA was flawed because the medical assessor failed to engage with and apply the psychological pain management recommendations, medication/neuropathic pain issues and the claimant's functional limitations at home; those unresolved pain-management and work-trial issues meant the claimant was not likely to achieve vocational independence and the Corporation's decision to require participation in vocational independence process was unsupportable.