Dandoroff v Rogozinoff - [1988] 2 NZLR 588

Accident compensation — Jurisdiction — Damages for assault, distress, intimidation, conspiracy to defraud and conversion — Plaintiff brought $16,000 in cash to a business meeting — The money was taken from the plaintiff and he was coerced by threats and a limited amount of physical violence to sign two documents — Plaintiff claimed general and exemplary damages for humiliation, embarrassment, indignity, distress, disruption and inconvenience — Whether plaintiff had suffered personal injury by accident — Whether claim for general damages was barred by 1982 Act — Whether claim for exemplary damages was similarly barred — Accident Compensation Act 1982, s 27.

Contract — Duress — Plaintiff paid money to defendant under circumstances of coercion by threats and a limited amount of physical violence — Whether payment was involuntary and recoverable as money had and received.