[2022] NZACC 97 – Gimenez v ACC (19 May 2022) [pdf, 246 KB]
...reconsiders this case. [23] ACC requested the advice of its clinical advisory panel which consisted of ten medical professionals, 6 of whom were orthopaedic surgeons. Also represented was an urgent care specialist, a physiotherapist, an occupational and environmental medicine specialist and a general surgeon. [24] The panel reported on 2 April 2019. ACR 248/18 [25] The panel first noted that the event on 13 July 2016 was not consistent with severe internal derangement of the...