Head and facial injuries in New Zealand cricket are increasingly rare but damage to the neck and vertebrae at the back of the head - the area where Australian batsman Phillip Hughes was fatally....

Hanging out with grandma, going to the toilet and taking part in a "super hero activity" are among the craziest claims ACC has had to fork out millions for.

Pumpkin Patch shares hit another record low yesterday as investors continued to punish the company after a dark annual meeting.

The death of a 22-year-old student who fell from his skateboard and suffered a fatal head injury has been referred to the coroner.

Bungled handling of a secret government report has revealed alarming levels of fraud at the Accident Compensation Corporation scheme and in the health sector.

A terrifying roller coaster ride in the sky turned Fuzzy Maiava's life upside down. Six years later, the ride goes on.

She has stood on a rake, fallen down stairs, cut her finger cooking and smashed her head on the corner of a window, but Janet Uttinger says she's not accident prone.

An unnamed ACC employee was paid over $800,000 last year. So who is this person - likely NZ's highest paid public servant?

Australian health insurer Medibank has won a bid to manage sexual abuse claims for the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC).

A man who stabbed an ACC staffer to death after a dispute over a payment has been declined parole.

People with chronic health conditions cost the accident compensation system 59 per cent more than healthy people without those conditions, researchers have found.

Hundreds of motorists are falsely registering their cars as ambulances, avoiding more than $200 in fees.

ACC has released a new report which reveals which area of the country makes the most new claims each year - and the most injury-prone region may surprise you.

Most ACC clients who complain about their treatment by the accident insurer believe their grievances have been handled poorly by the corporation, a new Auditor General's report has found.

Labour says it would run a Royal Commission into the public sector to address issues such as ministers' bullying of civil servants and the threat of "creeping corruption".

Kiwi men are clumsier than women, unless they are on a plane, overseas or living on the North Shore or Kapiti Coast.

Tauranga's coroner says "significant and serious failures" in the health care provided at Tauranga Hospital to two patients contributed to their premature deaths.

The chronic pain and health problems from mesh implants is a medical disaster that has affected an unknown number of victims, parliament has heard.

The District Court will be replaced as the main venue of accident compensation appeals by a new tribunal, the Government has confirmed.

The family of a girl killed in a crash with two other people say the tourist accused of causing the carnage is as much a victim as those who died.

Amputee Diane Smith has had 208 consultations at Auckland's state-owned artificial limb centre, yet none of the legs it has made for her has ever fitted properly.

An Auckland dental practice manager who fradulently obtained more than $150,000 from ACC was caught out by his employer.

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.