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).

Nearly a quarter of agriculture, forestry, and fishery workers had a work-related injury claim accepted by the Accident Compensation Corporation last year, Statistics New Zealand says.

The Crown's balance sheet expanded to more than $250 billion in the year ended June and its net worth grew 11 per cent to $75.5 billion.

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".

Motorists will be better off to the tune of $135 a year on average under ACC levy cuts confirmed yesterday.

NZ workers and businesses are to be denied almost $180 million in ACC levy cuts next year as recommended by the corporation, leaving it with an embarrassment of riches.

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.

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.