ACC
We have extensive experience in dealing with ACC law and legal proceedings. The services Hazel Armstrong Law provides in this area include:
Assistance with cover decisions
Assistance with cover decisions for complicated claims such as:
- Asthma
- Chronic solvent neurotoxicity
- Occupationally related cancers
- Noise induced hearing loss
- Asbestos related diseases
- OOS injuries
- Musculoskeletal injuries such as OOS, back and shoulder injuries
Assistance with decisions concerning entitlements including:
- Weekly compensation
- Lump sum compensation
- Hearing aids
Assistance with obtaining appropriate rehabilitation support and returning to work
Representation and advice:
- At meetings with ACC and/or Partnership Programme employers and their agents
- During the claims process
- During vocational independence processes
- At review and/or appeal
- At mediation
- During fraud investigations
REPORTS
ACC
- A New Policy for Vocational Rehabilitation
- ACC - What support can I get?
- ACC Fact Sheet
- ACC Futures Seminar - Occupational Health Perspective
- ACC's National Serious Injury Service
- Accidental Injuries and Pre-Existing Conditions
- All about the Work Preparation Programme
- Allenby v H
- Asbestos: The Killer Disease
- Blood on the Coal: The Origins and Future of New Zealand's Accident Compensation Scheme
- Costs recoverable for a Review hearing
- KSB v ACC (Court of Appeal)
- Miller v ACC
- Occupational Assessors Guide
- Reparation Sentences Cannot 'Top-Up' ACC Weekly Compensation - The Supreme Court Reaffirms the Woodhouse Principles
- Stocktake: Maori Experience of ACC
- Stocktake: Next Steps on ACC
- Stocktake: Next Steps on ACC - Cabinet Minute of Decision
- Stocktake: Performance of the ACC Scheme
- Stocktake: Regulatory Impact Statement
- Stocktake: Review of Employer-Managed Workplace Injury Claims
- Stocktake: Review of Employer-Managed Workplace Injury Claims - Appendicies
- Stocktake: Review of Institutional Arrangements
- Stocktake: Steering Group for the Stocktake of ACC
- Stocktake: Terms of Reference for the Stocktake of ACC Accounts
- Supreme Court reins in ACC
- The ACC User Handbook to the AMA "Guide to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment"
- The future of ACC
- Transitional Job Search Services Contract
- Vocational Independence: Outcomes for ACC Claimants
- Vocational Rehabilitation and Long-Term Claims
- What does degeneration mean? The use and abuse of an ambiguous word
- When the Going Gets Tough What Happens to Worn Out Workers?
Civil Litigation
- Employment Law
- Health & Safety
- Hearing Loss
- Insurance Law
- Professional Ethics & Occupational Regulation
- Rail
CASES
External Links
- ACC – What support can I get?
- ACC futures
- ACC Read Codes
- Accident Compensation Act 2001 No 49 (as at 01 August 2011)
- Assessment of Occupational Noise Induced Hearing Loss for ACC
- Health Information Privacy Code 1994
- Increases to ACC client payments
- Ministry of Justice
- New Zealand Council of Trade Union ACC campaign page
- New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
- Non-treating doctors performing medical assessments of patients for third parties – standards of practice
- Parliamentary debates
- Payments for Mental Harm – Marcus Elliott
- Public Service Association privatisation campaign page
- Radio Live 'History of ACC' interview with Hazel Armstrong
- Statistics New Zealand Official Injury Information Plan 2010-2012
- Statutes of New Zealand
- Te Ara Encyclopedia – Workplace Safety and Compensation
- The University of Auckland ACC Group
- UK Health and Safety Executive- Hand Arm Vibration Exposure Calculator