Where a worker claims injuries to different parts of the spine arising from separate incidents, the consequences of those injuries cannot be aggregated for the purpose of the serious injury test under s 134AB of the Accident Compensation Act 1985 (Vic) unless they arise in the same compensable circumstances. The evaluative nature of the serious injury assessment does not require extensive explicit reasoning, but the judge must identify the important evidence and the basis on which disputed questions have been resolved.
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