4 Nov 2016
Pewhairangi v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2016] NZACC 294
- Court
- District Court
The respondent’s decision was quashed because it failed to take into account relevant considerations required by statute and evidence, notably the unchallenged medical link between the covered treatment injury and subsequent weight gain and the appellant’s demonstrated pre‑injury independence and practical inadequacies of taxi/rental alternatives; the respondent overemphasised non‑covered obesity and cost without proper assessment of cost‑to‑benefit for the claimant. The matter is remitted for reconsideration with directions to give proper weight to those factors.