Sam v Accident Compensation Corporation - [2009] 1 NZLR 132

Accident compensation — Cover — Cerebral palsy caused during birth — Whether personal injury by accident — Whether application of force external to human body — Whether exposure to extremes of environment — Whether proof of accident if finite set of possible causes all within definition of “accident” — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001, ss 25(1)(a)(i) and 25(1)(e).