19 Nov 2015
KL v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2015] NZACC 355
- Court
- District Court
Section 20(4) bars a claimant from obtaining mental injury cover under s20 when the claimant already has cover for that mental injury under s21; alternatively, on the merits the only specialist evidence addressing causation (Dr Stoner) failed to establish that the covered physical injury was a real and significant cause of a clinically significant mental injury, so the s20 claim fails. Therefore the appeal is dismissed.