Where a claimant has sustained multiple injuries producing concurrent pain and suffering consequences at the date of trial, the trial judge must ordinarily make findings about all operative consequences and disentangle those attributable to each injury before assessing whether the consequences of the relevant injury satisfy the 'serious injury' threshold under s 134AB(38)(c) of the Accident Compensation Act 1985 (Vic). Loss of capacity for work is relevant to pain and suffering assessment only insofar as it is probative of the claimant's experience of pain or loss of enjoyment of life, not as a loss of earning capacity consequence per se.
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