27 Mar 2013
Hislop v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2013] NZACC 84
- Court
- District Court
On the facts and expert evidence the appellant's presentation contained diagnostically significant features of SAH that should have led to referral to a competent/senior practitioner and consideration of CT imaging; the failure to do so meant the later, more serious SAH was not an ordinary consequence of proper treatment and therefore constituted a treatment injury under ss32 and 33 of the Accident Compensation Act 2001; appeal allowed and cover granted.