Australia, June 2 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 2:
1. KIRK JA: The sole issue in this appeal is whether an injury to the skin (which is not also an injury to nerves) is a "soft tissue injury" as defined in s 1.6 of the Motor Accident Injuries Act 2017 (NSW) (the Act). The issue has been considered by a number of review panels of the Personal Injury Commission in recent times, reaching different answers, and with even those panels reaching the same conclusion adopting different reasoning to each other: Al-Khafaji v Insurance Australia Limited t/as NRMA Insurance [2022] NSWPICMP 519 at [98]; Nazari v AAI Limited t/as GIO (No 2) [2023] NSWPICMP 62 at [70]-[79]; Eftikhari v AAI Limi...