24 Mar 2016
Young v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2016] NZACC 74
- Court
- District Court
On the balance of probabilities the appellant suffered a low voltage electric shock while using the hairdryer; credible eyewitness accounts, an unchallenged electrician's report demonstrating exposed live components and a viable moisture conduction path, contemporaneous medical records, and specialist medical opinion establish both occurrence of a shock and causation of neck injury by sustained tetanic muscle contraction. Accordingly the Corporation's decision to suspend cover was quashed and the review decision set aside.