Accident Compensation Corporation v J - [2016] 3 NZLR 551

Accident Compensation — Entitlements — Treatment injury — Pregnancy resulting from failed sterilisation — Mother unable to continue work due to childcare obligations — Whether mother entitled to compensation for loss of earnings due to childcare demands — Whether cover limited to gestational period — Whether income compensation inconsistent with accident compensation scheme even given expansive interpretation of personal injury — Whether physical injury still in effect — Whether the “personal injury” of pregnancy ceased at childbirth — Accident Compensation Act 2001, s 103.