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ACC's $850+ Million Surplus Bewildering
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 9:58 am | Acclaim
ACC claimants are shaking their heads with disbelief over ACC's CEO Garry Wilson's news earlier this week that ACC's full-year surplus is expected to exceed $850 million. More >>
Law Society Committee supports inquiry into ACC
Friday, 16 July 2004, 12:41 am | Acclaim
The recent decision by the New Zealand Law Society ACC Committee to register its support for a petition calling for a Parliamentary select-committee inquiry into ACC has been warmly welcomed by ACC claimant support groups across the country. More >>
Call for inquiry into ACC supported
Thursday, 17 June 2004, 12:55 am | Acclaim
Acclaim groups around the country congratulate Green Party MP Sue Bradford for presenting a petition calling for a Select Committee inquiry into ACC claims management. More >>
Radio Pacific Supported Protest at ACC Greymouth
Friday, 21 May 2004, 2:16 pm | Acclaim
Photo's of the Radio Pacific Supported Protest at ACC Greymouth Thursday 20th May 2004. More >>
Claimants' complaints valid
Monday, 10 May 2004, 12:20 am | Acclaim
Many long term ACC claimants recently laid complaints with ACC's Office of the Complaints Investigator over David Rankin's inappropriate comments in media reports regarding Work Preparation Programmes. More >>
Controller and Auditor-General Report Into ACC
Thursday, 6 May 2004, 11:37 am | Acclaim
Acclaim support networks throughout New Zealand note the recent report issued by the Controller and Auditor-General into the case management of claimants by the Accident Compensation Corporation. More >>
Auditor General's Report verifies concerns
Friday, 30 April 2004, 1:11 pm | Acclaim
ACC's claims management was not given a clean bill of health by the Auditor General's report released yesterday as purported by ACC in their press release. In fact the report validated what claimants, their advocates and lawyers have been saying for ... More >>
ACCLAIM Support Groups
Monday, 19 April 2004, 2:48 pm | Acclaim
Revelations in today's media that ACC staff are bullied in the workplace only serves to reiterate what claimants and their advocates have been saying for a long time now. The culture within ACC is inappropriate and out of control. Janice Gemmell said ... More >>
Effective Rehabilitation Questioned
Thursday, 8 April 2004, 9:21 am | Acclaim
More revelations in the media about "bizarre" practises within the Work Preparation Programmes used by ACC have prompted support groups to canvas members about their own experiences. Some are being asked to write their own epitaphs, some ... More >>
Effective Rehabilitation Questioned
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 1:05 pm | Acclaim
More revelations in the media about "bizarre" practises within the Work Preparation Programmes used by ACC have prompted support groups to canvas members about their own experiences. Some are being asked to write their own epitaphs, some ... More >>
ACCLAIM Questions Identity Interest
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 2:32 pm | Acclaim
ACC claims there is no public interest involved in the fact that an ACC employee, a former case manager for the ACC subsidiary Catalyst, is using a pseudonym to hide his real identity. More >>
ACC's Attitude Slammed as a Disgrace
Monday, 29 March 2004, 10:19 am | Acclaim
ACCLAIM support groups from around the country are calling for the General Manager of ACC Healthwise, David Rankin's, sacking for his denigrating, discrediting and demonising comments about ACC claimants reported in several newspapers this morning. More >>
ACC Claimant Suicides
Tuesday, 10 February 2004, 5:14 pm | Acclaim
Suicides brought about by ACC's adverse attitudes and culture, an eagerness to decline and deny entitlements to rehabilitation and weekly compensation, inconsistency in decision-making, doctors and vocational assessors writing biased reports and being ... More >>
ACC Performance Success Disputed
Monday, 26 January 2004, 8:34 am | Acclaim
Earlier this week the Accident Compensation Corporation's Chief Executive Officer, Garry Wilson, said the ACC scheme had "performed well" with improved processes benefiting both claimants and providers to ACC alike. More >>
Ryan Becker's ACC Review Decision
Monday, 10 November 2003, 10:48 am | Acclaim
The review decision is a clear example of the shallowness of the ACC review and appeal process; evidence ignored, evidence withheld, evidence considered out of context. The general public should be alarmed that basic human rights are being thrown into ... More >>
ACC Accused Of to "Psychological Torture"
Friday, 10 October 2003, 2:13 pm | Acclaim
The ACC Minister Ruth Dyson, was challenged by members of Greypower at a Southland meeting yesterday over claims that ACC staff and contractors were subjecting claimants to "psychological torture" Karen Arnold of the Southland Times reported. ... More >>
NZ Invention - World First
Tuesday, 1 April 2003, 11:11 am | Acclaim
Why doesn't real life seem to have the excitement of a Hollywood action flick or the romance of a Julia Roberts' movie? Auckland computer company, Acclaim Datasystems have the answer, and have developed software that is set to revolutionise the personal ... More >>
