Large v Accident Compensation Corporation (Leave to appeal) [2022] NZACC 203 [pdf, 281 KB]
...that the Courts have held that issues as to causation are questions of law and he refers to the authorities, Hornby v ACC6 and W v ACC.7 [8] Mr Beck says the question is whether a particular event was a “material contributing factor” to the claimant’s condition. He says the District Court failed to ask the correct questions in this case and that it was not a question of whether something was “triggered” in 2018, but whether the incident in 2018 was a “material factor...