More than double: ACC claims related to walking while on phones rise
More people were walking into trees, tripping over and falling down kerbs.
AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
Latest from Accident Compensation Corporation
'Too valuable to lose' - ACC cuts funding for programme protecting preschoolers from sexual abuse
The safety course has run for 28 years and taught more than 17,000 children.
Bus drivers urged to wait until passengers seated after over 12,000 recent injuries
'Even when they saw me pregnant, they still left before I was seated.'
Coroner's handbrake warning after mother killed by rolling van
Kraleva, 52, died from blunt force injuries to her torso on October 14, 2020.
‘A nightmare’: Doctor apologises after removing internal organs
Amanda Giddens' ovaries were removed without her informed consent. This is her story.
Injured sailor back in NZ after spending months in Panama hospital
Hospitalised for four months in Panama, Marcel Syron finally returns to Aotearoa.
Birth injury claims now a 'priority' for ACC
ACC is finally accepting birth injury claims after cover was expanded last year.
Letters: Election 2023, yellow footpath dots, Govt achievements
OPINION: Letters on KKK costumes, financial literacy, Asian culture, and up the Wahs!
Safety first: Why the pause on surgical mesh operations is long overdue
Procedure should remain halted until surgeons have skills to perform it safely.
'Like a skydiving injury’: Woman breaks leg in three places after slipping on pedestrian dots
At least two people have been hospitalised in the past two weeks after slips.
Paralysed teen takes ACC fight to Court of Appeal
ACC and two courts have denied his claims. Now the case will go to the Court of Appeal.
Broken bones, concussions: Yellow tactile dots for sight-impaired a slippery hazard
Urgent action needed on dangerous yellow dots that are slippery when wet.
ACC introduces kaupapa Māori navigation services to help Māori clients
ACC has introduced a free service for Māori who need help making compensation claims.
Wellington chippy insolvent, blames Covid and Parliament protest
The fish and chip venue received $30,000 in funding following the anti-mandate protest.
Deadly dust: Photos reveal alarming conditions at Kiwi worksites
Photos released for the first time show dangerous working conditions.
Revealed: The 'insulting' number of accepted claims for permanent surgical mesh injuries
Officials are investigating pausing the use of surgical mesh for a common birth injury.
Rugby on edge: Two promising players suffer critical injuries mid-game
Both players were transported to Auckland Hospital in a critical condition.
Thousands of ACC cases probed for misuse, but only seven prosecutions
The number of fraud cases investigated jumped 540 per cent in one year.
Highest-paid public sector bosses: Top earner's 30% bump to $1.4m
After years of pay restraint, state sector pay is on the up again.
Hot water bottle injuries in Northland cost ACC $175K in five years
Record winter for Northland hot water bottle injury claims.
Off-beam: Whangārei e-scooter injuries soar
There's been a 400 per cent rise in claims for e-scooter injuries in Whangārei in a year.
Woman reeling after three failed IUD removal procedures in one day
A woman was sent home bleeding after an IUD removal went wrong - three times.
‘It’s ludicrous’: ACC refuses surgery for woman injured in dodgem car crash
She was sitting in a stationary bumper car when she was rammed from behind.
Risky business: ACC persists in appeal on timber sellers' classification
ACC is determined not to concede defeat after courts repeatedly rule against levy lifts.
'Something is wrong': The forgotten disease that's become a silent killer
Government documents reveal stonemasons remain at risk from the deadly dust.
Wellington bar The George insolvent: landlord changed locks, $800,000+ owed
Landlord changed locks after bar failed to pay rent, and IRD makes move.
Revealed: ACC and NZ Rugby swapped notes rejecting concussion, degenerative brain injury link
Documents reveal ACC and NZ Rugby emailed after rugby brain injury cases emerged.
Revealed: Huge cost of Govt’s shelved Income Insurance Scheme
A trail of redundancies and contractor termination costs follow in its wake.
'Revenge porn’: One woman’s years-long ACC struggle
Post-traumatic stress was diagnosed after ex shared a sex video on popular porn site.
'Want to go dancing': ACC ordered to cover 19 year old injury
Gaynor Downes burst into tears after ACC was ordered to finally cover shoulder injury.
Ohakune restaurants took $287k Covid cash, now broke
An award-winning "hamburgeria" turned Tapas restaurant and bakery are now in liquidation.
Local Focus: Isolated and alone while losing his legs
Gisborne resident Josh Grant talks about his lonely brush with death.
'Almost more abuse': Govt stalls on survivor's compo loophole
Pledges to look into compo issue, but no results for up to 2000 affected people.
Six reasons why one Ponsonby Central restaurant failed
'Business was already financially struggling with high overheads and staffing issues.'