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Monday, 20 February 2012 07:40
Capital cracks down on binge drinkers
Wellington partygoers so drunk they need medical help could find themselves visited by counsellors in a move to crack down on repeat binge drinkers.The move is part of a plan to create a permanent base for a Wellington Free Ambulance triage centre near Courtenay Place, to operate on Friday and Saturday nights.Ambulance events co-ordinator Ross Weddell said a deal was about to be signed with ACC to set up a triage centre for three years,…
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Thursday, 16 February 2012 13:28
Suing doctors a return to 'dark days', court told
The lawyer for a surgeon sued after a woman became pregnant following a failed sterilisation operation, has warned against a return to the "dark days".The doctor, Keith Allenby of Auckland's Middlemore Hospital, says Terri Hannam should have ACC cover but ACC says she should not.Hannam was represented at a Supreme Court hearing today but her lawyer, John Miller, told the five judges that she was "abiding the decision of the court".
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012 05:26
Payments could harm families, court told
Paying parents to care for their disabled adult children could harm family relationships, Court of Appeal judges have been told.Health Ministry lawyers say avoiding commercialising the care relationship and not making families reliant on the caregiving income were reasonable objectives of the ministry's policy not to pay family members to take care of disabled relatives.But some of the ministry's argument appears to have been undermined because ACC pays family members to care for injured relatives…
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Thursday, 09 February 2012 19:38
Home detention for Paraparaumu man who kept working while claiming ACC
A ‘tip-off’ to ACC’s freephone fraud reporting line led to the conviction of Paraparaumu man Simon John Kruidenier in the Porirua District Court recently for defrauding ACC.The 58-year-old, who claimed seven years’ worth of weekly compensation payments while he continued to work, appeared in Court on 24 January 2012.Mr Kruidenier pleaded guilty to a representative charge under Section 228 of the Crimes Act 1961. He was sentenced by Judge Walker to eight months’ home detention,…
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