11 Dec 2000
Ward v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2000] NZACC 331
- Court
- District Court
The court found the appellant's current incapacity is now wholly or substantially caused by pre-existing degenerative lumbar spondylosis at L5/S1, which was present at the time of the October 1995 accident; the 1995 accident merely made that degenerative condition symptomatic and did not cause it, so ACC was correct to cease entitlements under the Act.