By contrast, in Jobling v Associated Dairies [1982] AC 794, the defendant negligently injured the plaintiff in a work accident. Some time later, the plaintiff suffered a further back injury, (non tortious) arising from an illness unconnected to the accident. This further injury meant he was unable to work. It was held that the defendant’s liability ceased at the point that the further back injury developed. He did not have to compensate the plaintiff for the ‘vicissitudes of life’.