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.

ACC Minister Judith Collins has confirmed $387 million worth of ACC levy cuts from April next year.

Kiwis could be in for lower car registration fees and taxes after ACC's recommendation of a five per cent cut in the levy it charges on motor vehicles.

The amount of money managed by the ACC has more than doubled in the past five years and it is now NZ's largest investment manager - outstripping the NZ Super.

More Aucklanders than ever were bitten, butted and bruised by dogs last year as record levels of claims for dog-inflicted injuries were reported.

Ten days before Jason Gibson died, he visited his parents at their Christchurch home.

Hundreds of ACC claims arising from firework injuries are expected in the next few days as New Zealanders let off shop-bought explosives.

ACC has been ordered to pay lost wages and compensation to a worker who was sacked over a privacy breach - but it won't have to reinstate her.

A patient suffered three injuries as a result of surgery at Grey Base Hospital, the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) says.

Almost 7000 people will injure themselves this week - and nearly all of these will be the result of sport or other recreational activities.

New Zealanders have a poor understanding of the Accident Compensation Commission, writes Brian Gaynor.

Claimants battling ACC for entitlements say its $4.9 billion surplus is "ridiculous" and "obscene" given how difficult it has made it for New Zealanders to obtain compensation.

The Accident Compensation Corporation has reported a massive surplus of $4.9 billion, which will give the Government's books an extra $324 million boost.

What utterly specious reasoning from ACC, which claims levies on private motor vehicles will mean safer cars and fewer crashes.

Using vehicle safety ratings to determine how much drivers pay in injury levies is a step in the right direction, the Motor Trade Association says.

Kiwi motorists opting for safer cars may soon be paying less than $100 a year in injury levies.

A man who broke his back in three places in a car accident had to battle ACC three times over 12 years to get compensation and he's still waiting.

Weddings are supposed to be the happiest day of your life - try telling that to the hundreds of people who make ACC claims for injuries at ceremonies.