Recent reports on a major privacy breach at ACC will help overcome problems with a controversial claimant consent form and restore fair play, Dunedin ACC campaigner Dr Denise Powell believes.
ACC staff are on the receiving end of a growing number of threats to the organisation, with one client saying his case manager "was lucky he didn't shoot her".
The level of permanent disability among the injured, including those not admitted to hospital for their injury, has surprised University of Otago researchers.
Only a tiny minority of former long-term ACC clients have gained full-time work after being removed from the scheme, a national survey indicates.
The new ACC board has been welcomed by BusinessNZ, with chief executive Phil O'Reilly hoping the debate will restart about competition for the corporation.
Improving how ACC's "marginalised" consumer liaison group works will help restore overall community trust in the Corporation, Dunedin ACC campaigner Denise Powell says.
All government agencies' handling of private data may be reviewed after an independent inquiry into the ACC privacy breach found it could have happened in any department.
Two major reports that yesterday found "systemic failure" in ACC's privacy-protection measures have vindicated concerns long raised by Otago ACC claimants, Dunedin ACC campaigner Dr Denise Powell said yesterday.
Only a bipartisan political agreement about how ACC will operate in future can ultimately restore the public's trust and confidence in the corporation, Dunedin ACC campaigner Dr Denise Powell says.
New figures suggesting a high level of dissatisfaction with ACC decisions among some Otago claimants show the corporation has "a huge mountain to climb" to regain lost confidence , Dunedin ACC campaigner Dr Denise Powell says.
Investigations into the source of a crucial leak of information about the Bronwyn Pullar ACC scandal have been hampered by the corporation's former chairman, John Judge, replacing or wiping his computers, according to ACC Minister Judith Collins.
An ACC policy change "significantly disadvantages" tertiary students with short-term injuries, by reducing academic support funding, a disability support group says.
ACC staff are receiving financial incentives to kick long-term claimants off the corporation's books official documents show, the Green Party says.
A national survey launched by ACC claimant support group Acclaim Otago seems likely to shed new light on what has happened to some of the several thousand long-term ACC claimants recently "exited" from the scheme.
Another ACC client has been sent a private document about someone else by mistake, while two inquiries are still under way into the last big leak of the corporation's confidential files.
Another ACC client has been sent a private document about someone else by mistake, while two inquiries are still under way into the last big leak of the corporation's confidential files.
Reston Brook has to push a 2cm-wide length of rubber down his throat every day so he can eat and drink.
ACC is taking steps to overcome "administrative errors" in handling a much-delayed Official Information Act request, after signing an high-level agreement requiring full compliance with the Act.
Recent comments by an ACC senior manager about sharply reducing long-term claimant numbers have been "very embarrassing" for the commission, a Dunedin lawyer says.
Improving "trust and confidence" has replaced "cost containment" as the beleaguered Accident Compensation Corporation's No.1 priority for the coming year in an agreement with its Minister Judith Collins released today.