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Queensland Premier calls for improved flood insurance
Anna Bligh would like to see a better system developed so Australians have better insurance protection against flood disasters.
Overseas help bumps up quake costs
More than $7 million has been spent on overseas workers brought in to help cope with the workload after the Canterbury earthquake.
Weather and earthquake-related claims flood in
Christchurch's Boxing Day aftershocks and the recent wet weather have seen more than 1000 claims lodged with the Earthquake Commission.
Trauma after murder
A Kiwi mum who witnessed her husband's murder at the hands of "greedy" family members in India says she is still traumatised.
More Kiwis die on foreign soil
Kiwi's lax attitude to getting our travel jabs may be killing us.
Govt opens ACC to private sector
The Government is to allow private insurers to compete with the Accident Compensation Corporation.
Quake set to be fifth-biggest global payout
Canterbury's massive earthquake and aftershocks are likely to rank as the fifth most costly quake ever for insurers.
The ACC files: Doctors need more scrutiny, says critic
ACC's medical advisers are not being held properly accountable, a lawyer says.
MPs urged to probe ACC's 'no' doctors
A lawyer has asked for an investigation into a group of doctors he says ACC uses to reject claims due to pre-injury "degenerative" conditions.
Quake claims among highest in world
More than 80 per cent of Christchurch households have filed insurance claims for the Canterbury quake.
ACC's 'flimsy refusals'
Hundreds of accident victims are being wrongly refused treatment on back, shoulder and knee injuries that are being mislabelled as due to "degenerative" causes, say lawyers.
Agony after crash but ACC says 'no'
A woman whose car was spun across three lanes in an accident on the Southern Motorway has been refused accident compensation for her back injury on the grounds that her spinal problem is "degenerative".