16 Jun 2008
Executors of the Estate of Tangiora v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2008] NZACC 120
- Court
- District Court
Judge found that at handover Dr Vahdati-Bolouri failed to inform the incoming registrar of the full haematological findings and that further blood film results were pending; that omission breached the standard of care reasonably to be expected of a registered health professional in the circumstances and constituted medical error; on the balance of probabilities earlier administration of antibiotics (once the haematological indicators were known) would likely have altered the outcome, establishing causation; therefore the ACC decisions declining cover were quashed and cover for medical misadve…