19 Dec 2017
Price v Accident Compensation Corporation (Vocational Independence)
- Citation
- [2017] NZACC 148
- Court
- District Court
The VIOA was flawed because the occupational assessor failed to perform an independent analysis, largely copied prior material, and did not show that proposed roles were materially different from the appellant's pre-injury employment or address vocational updating; the VIMA was flawed because it was internally inconsistent in excluding some sedentary analyst roles while accepting substantially similar roles and because it placed undue weight on an FCE which is unreliable as a standalone measure in chronic pain. For these reasons the Corporation's decisions were set aside and the appeal allowe…