27 Aug 2009
EC v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2009] NZACC 145
- Court
- District Court
The Court held that the Corporation validly revised the deemed decision under s65 because pregnancy is not a 'physical injury' within the statutory definition of personal injury as interpreted by the Court of Appeal in ACC v D and Ballal; accordingly the reviewer's decision granting cover for continued pregnancy was wrong as a matter of law and was quashed, restoring the primary decision declining cover.