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Carmel Berry feels like she has been "sitting on a barbed wire fence" for almost a decade since having an operation to repair a prolapsed uterus.
Carmel Berry feels like she has been "sitting on a barbed wire fence" for almost a decade since having an operation to repair a prolapsed uterus.
One wrong step caused a horrific workplace accident which nearly took a man's life - and has now cost him his livelihood and will soon cost him his house.
Motorists with newer, safer cars may see their annual licence costs slashed by as much as $163 a year.
The cost of car relicensing could fall about 40 per cent by next July - a drop the Automobile Association expects will result in fewer cash-strapped motorists flouting the law.
Fran O'Sullivan asks, "What pushed Key to the point where he applied the choke chain to the Cabinet's Rottweiler? Pity Key didn't yank the chain earlier."
ACC will pay for every cent of rape victims' counselling as part of a major overhaul of its sensitive claims system later this year.
The privacy waiver form used by ACC for 1.7 million claims a year is unlawful, a lawyer says.
ACC is restarting payments to claimants it had unlawfully cut off for rejecting its demand for wide access to personal information about them.
Labour admits its new transport policies - scrapping trucks from fast lanes and motorhome rego fees - are 'small', while the Transport Minister labelled them a 'joke'.
A judge has overturned ACC's policy of cutting off accident claimants' compensation if they refuse to approve widespread gathering of information about themselves.
A judge has overturned ACC's policy of cutting off accident claimants' compensation if they refuse to approve widespread gathering of information about themselves.
Beware. You may not know it, but there's one day of the year that you're more likely to injure yourself than any other. And that day is looming...
A woman who defrauded ACC of more than $200,000 has been sentenced to 11 months' home detention, the corporation says.
Call for course funding as toddlers' safety skills improve with nine-week programme.
The trailer was packed, the wife and kids were waiting in the car and Mike Moth needed to run inside to get one last thing.
The most expensive claim filed with the Accident Compensation Corporation for an injury suffered around the home has cost taxpayers more than $1 million.
Ah summer. Icecream, jandals, BBQs, long hot days at the beach....and hundreds of thousands of injury claims to ACC.
Clumsy Kiwis have fallen into gutters, crashed into trees and collided with other people while texting and walking.
Judith Collins has eased off on suggestions workplace safety training run by the Council of Trade Unions and Business NZ is a taxpayer rip-off, the union and employer organisations said yesterday.
The Accident Compensation Corporation will end a health and safety training programme it said today after activist group the Taxpayers Union highlighted almost $20 million in spending on the training which generated few benefits.
Ladder-related injuries are costing Kiwis almost $17 million a year, and those aged 50 to 64 are taking the most tumbles.
The number of patients who received state-funded spinal fusion surgery doubled in the decade to 2011.
A family friendly board game, Reach the Beach, has been created by police and the Accident Compensation Corporation to encourage safer journeys on the roads over summer.
The offer of money made to the Pike River families by the mine's former boss doesn't look good, Prime Minister John Key says.
ACC Minister Judith Collins has confirmed $387 million worth of ACC levy cuts from April next year.