ACC levies
Vernon Small reports: ACC is in line for a major shake-up, with the two major parties eyeing changes that could see premiums plunge by up to 25 per cent. Labour is rethinking its ACC policy, and could...
View ArticleVery Little proof
The Herald reports: ACC bosses laid a police complaint alleging blackmail by claimant Bronwyn Pullar and Michelle Boag after being pressured by their minister Judith Collins, Labour MP Andrew Little...
View ArticleACC and Welfare
The Herald reports: The proportion of long-term ACC clients moving on to benefits has surged since the corporation adopted a tough new stance, which has fuelled allegations that they are being forced...
View ArticleThe ACC $250 offers
Some of those who have been offered $250 compensation from ACC for the privacy breach, have said it is not enough and they want more. The problem is that it is not really ACC that is paying them $250....
View ArticleQuestions Radio NZ did not ask
Radio NZ did an interview with a Dave Wooley on ACC this morning. I suspect they are going to interview a disgruntled person a day. Now I think it is fine to interview disgruntled people with ACC, but...
View ArticleNeuropsychological testing and ACC
Vernon Small at Stuff reports: ACC’s methods are again under the spotlight after it confirmed using “neuropsychological and psychological assessments” to help decide if claimants were being...
View ArticleHerald on ACC
A sensible editorial from the NZ Herald: The careless language and loose accusations in ACC’s internal exchanges were probably the reason the minister took drastic action. It was an insight into a...
View ArticleGareth Morgan on ACC
Gareth Morgan writes at NZ Herald: Sir Owen doesn’t like the fact that we have different levies to reflect different accident rates in different industries or with different kinds of vehicles. His...
View ArticleCollins on ACC and privacy
John Hartevelt at Stuff reports: ACC Minister Judith Collins wants the state insurer to start sacking staff who breach a new “zero tolerance” policy on privacy breaches. A furious Ms Collins has...
View ArticleThe ACC reports
Two reports out today on ACC. One from the Auditor-General and one by the Privacy Commissioner. Both individually and jointly they are fairly damning. Some extracts from the AG: When Ms Pullar met Mr...
View ArticleACC doctors
Phil Kitchin reports at Stuff: ACC is spending millions of dollars flying doctors around New Zealand to assess long-term clients who have already been assessed by other doctors. The policy has been...
View ArticleYou want fair, but not a soft touch
Andrea Vance at Stuff reports: Work and Income is using “chequebook doctors” to move sick claimants off welfare, advocates say. State insurer ACC has been criticised for paying medical assessors to...
View ArticleACC is now welfare
Marty Sharpe at Stuff reports: The number of families of suicide victims granted support from ACC has declined since changes to legislation in 2010. A woman whose daughter took her own life after...
View ArticleWanting more money from ACC for privacy breach
The SST reports: Sex abuse survivors are planning to sue ACC to force a significantly boosted payout for breaching their privacy in the ongoing Bronwyn Pullar whistleblower saga. ACC sent apology...
View ArticleLittle advocates huge increase in ACC costs
Vernon Small reports: Labour ACC spokesman Andrew Little is urging his party to remove an “injustice” in the no-fault scheme by extending it to cover incapacity caused by illness or disease as well as...
View Article“Not that sort of person”
The Herald reports: Mr Fieldsend contacted the Herald to tell his side of the story after ACC used his comment about shooting as an example in a story published on Monday about the rise in threats...
View ArticleMallard and Little fold
Adam Bennett at NZ Herald reports; ACC Minister Judith Collins’ defamation action against Labour MPs Trevor Mallard and Andrew Little has been settled following a hearing in the High Court at Auckland...
View ArticleThe right decision
Shane Cowlishaw at Stuff reports: An embalmer who was forced to counsel the grieving father of a suicide victim has been denied ACC cover because it was not the only harrowing incident of her career....
View ArticleShould ACC be extended to illness?
Nicole Pryor at Stuff reports: Sick people are more likely to be out of work and have money problems than injured people, says new research. A study from the University of Otago, which has been...
View Article17 years on ACC
Stuff reports: A Hutt Valley man who was filmed walking around a supermarket while claiming he needed a wheelchair has lost a battle to get his ACC payments back. Wiremu Brightwell had appealed against...
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