23 Jul 1999
Warren v Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Corporation
- Citation
- [1999] NZACC 204
- Court
- District Court
On the balance of probabilities the initial 1985 playground fall initiated a pars stress fracture that failed to heal and subsequent identifiable external-force events (likely hockey-related hyperextension incidents) caused progressive vertebral slippage; those subsequent events constitute a series of accidents within the s.3 definition and the injury is covered under the Act rather than being a non-covered gradual process.