LJ v Accident Compensation Corporation (personal injury; deemed cover; unreasonable delay) [2025] NZACC 179 (23 October 2025) [pdf, 257 KB]
...which the person has cover. Section 25(1)(a)(i) provides that “accident” means a specific event or a series of events, other than a gradual process, that involves the application of a force (including gravity), or resistance, external to the human body. Section 25(3) notes that the fact that a person has suffered a personal injury is not of itself to be construed as an indication or presumption that it was caused by an accident. [39] In Ambros,1 the Court of Appeal envisaged...