15 Sept 2010
Roberts v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2010] NZACC 158
- Court
- District Court
On the facts and contemporaneous medical standards the GP and specialist could not reasonably have been expected to diagnose HH in the 1980s; by about 2000 the appellant's arthropathy was already established and venesection thereafter would not have prevented or altered its course; therefore the statutory criteria for a treatment injury under ss32–33 were not met and the decline of cover was correctly confirmed.