18 Dec 2014
Barriball v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2014] NZACC 330
- Court
- District Court
The court preferred the diagnosis and causal analysis of the treating orthopaedic surgeon (impingement syndrome) together with the occupational therapist's high‑repetition/high‑force workplace assessment and the occupational physician's application of s30; on the balance of probabilities the work tasks significantly contributed to and caused the appellant's shoulder condition and the statutory significant risk test was satisfied; the Corporation's earlier procedural and investigatory imperfections did not invalidate the existence of decisions under s57, and both the 2007 decision and its 2008…