Smith v Accident Compensation Corporation (Entitlement to Surgery) [2024] NZACC 30 [pdf, 277 KB]
...unusual cases that do not resolve in the expected way, or cases where the mechanism of injury would ordinarily be insufficient to cause the injury in question but nevertheless cause or contribute to it. I find that this is one of those cases. [101] I conclude therefore that the appellant’s left shoulder acromioclavicular joint arthropathy and instability was wholly or substantially caused by her accidents in 2016 and 2018 and that therefore ACC’s decisions of 5 March 2021 and...