Key legal question
Whether Suva lawfully ended accident insurance benefits as of 2014-05-18 for the lumbar complaints.
Extracted holding
The complaints were no longer shown to be causally linked to the insured accidents with sufficient probability; the remaining need for treatment was due to degenerative, accident-unrelated causes.
Extracted reasoning
The court found the decisive cause of the operation to be a degenerative narrowing of the neuroforamen and not a traumatic lesion. The insured events may have caused only a temporary aggravation, and the insurer had proved the end of causal accident effects by the relevant date.