15 Mar 1999
Penn v Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Corporation
- Citation
- [1999] NZACC 64
- Court
- District Court
The regulations (Accident Compensation (Referred Treatment Costs) Regulations 1990) set an absolute cap of 36 referred physiotherapy treatments per claim and neither the respondent nor the Court has discretion to approve additional treatments beyond that statutory maximum; therefore the decision to decline further physiotherapy was correct and must be upheld.