Abstract
The New Zealand accident compensation scheme makes provision for the payment of compensation to the victims of personal injury that is caused by medical treatment, but at the same time it bars actions for damages based upon such injury. This article gives a brief overview of the scheme as a whole and its relation- ship with the common law, and then focuses on the particular provisions governing medical injury. It includes discussion of the extent of the statutory cover, problems of causation, the operation of the medical scheme in practice, costs and funding, and issues of accountability. It ends with a broad evaluation of accident compensation as it functions in medical cases.
Recommended Citation
Stephen Todd,
Treatment Injury in New Zealand,
86
Chi.-Kent L. Rev.
1169
(2011).
Available at:
https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/vol86/iss3/8
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