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Thread ID: 79137	2007-05-09 07:07:00	ACC again!	Gordon62 (11771)	PC World Chat

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548546	2007-05-09 07:07:00	Sorry, I'm not sure if I should have posted this in the original thread or not but feel free to bung it where you deem it appropriate Moderator. Well at long last the brain dead b*****s at ACC have conceded defeat and I can now have the op on my shoulder. There were a couple of things at the review that some of you may want to take note of for reference. Firstly I sent my documents to the review officer and ACC 16 days before the hearing. I recieved ACC's documents 2 days before the hearing with additional information that thay had dug up from as far back as 1997 so had no time to prepare any documents to refute their claims-smell a rat somewhere? Secondly they had me as Gordon on the cover document but somehow I had become John on the second page. That was brushed of as a typo at the review, smell another rat? How can anyone make a typo like that? The contention by ACC was that in 1997 I suffered from OOS and was turned down for coverage. When questioned as to the details this clown from ACC was very vague and stated he was simply quoting from records. Funny that as I have never been diagnosed in my life with OOS and it is not recorded on any of my doctors notes! I did have a problem in 1995 with RSI which was resolved when the company put in ergonomically designed furniture but RSI was in the doctors notes not OOS and in fact ACC did give me coverage for that (had the bloody cheek to follow up 18 months later asking how I was progressing!). Anyway that's the way ACC work today as many of us know. For a while there I expected that ACC were going to take the whole fiasco to court. The woman lawyer who heard the case however wrote her decision to quash ACC's claim in such a way that it read almost exactly the way a defence lawyer would present evidence to a judge and I would probably have relished the court case just to put the boot in! To all those who have given up hope-never let the bas****s grind you down! They can be beaten. Regards Gordon.	Gordon62 (11771)
548547	2007-05-09 07:27:00	Er..... Reptitive Strain Injury was renamed Occupational Overuse Syndrome so theye were right on that one.	pctek (84)
548548	2007-05-09 08:25:00	Congratulations, a friend of mine had a lot of trouble with these F****** B******* and in the end they did not pay out and were no help at all in spite of the fact that there was an obvious injury and the person could not walk because of it. After about two months they got better anyway.	zqwerty (97)
548549	2007-05-09 09:02:00	But aren't their ad's just great and telling us all that wonderful info???:D	beeswax34 (63)
548550	2007-05-09 11:51:00	those ads are just labour trying to tell us how good they are to us, notice they came about while they also tried to push for us to pay for their marketing? national mentioned reforming/binning acc, the whole place suggested they steal our money (well more of it) and then they put out ads pointing out that we're covered in an accident, just incase we didn't know already. begin rant:rolleyes: anyway, i've had limited experience with acc, but my friends and family have had no problems, with the exception of employers. worker walks in 8am monday morning with a limp. 9am disappears. 10am comes back from the a&e with acc forms. get's the week off from acc, employer pays 80% of employee's wages for the week he's gone. funnily enough said employee also had builders at his house that week too........ my mate has a habit of hurting himself. he's accident prone. now he's afraid to go to the doctor incase he gets another claim. why? his boss is fed up paying wages to a guy who is never there, and won't let him work there anyway for fear of further injury. my point is, unless you obtain an injury at work, why should work pay for it? they get screwed by you not being there as it is. really it just discourages employers from hiring people who have active lifestyles; play sports, go tramping, cycle to work. did i mention that while we pay for acc in our petrol, car rego, smokes, wages etc, employers pay on top of that? a self employed person (contracted to a company) has to pay around 2 grand per year. small-medium businesses like in my first example pay tens of thousands a year, and then have to pay out on top of that for workers who want a paid week off. /rant	motorbyclist (188)
548551	2007-05-09 20:31:00	t national mentioned reforming/binning acc, As selfemployed people paying ACC for years and years, I can tell you there was a short period where we were all given the option of getting private accident insurance instead. Then, they decided that was rubbish and cancelled it, and we all had to back pay ACC for that time period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!	pctek (84)
548552	2007-05-10 07:36:00	Er..... Reptitive Strain Injury was renamed Occupational Overuse Syndrome so theye were right on that one. Hi pctek. Yes I'm well aware that RSI and OOS are one and the same thing. What tipped me off to the fact that this b****r was just using spin (or lying in his teeth) was firstly he could quote no details of the doctors notes. Yes I could understand him transposing OOS as the problem rather than RSI but he simply glossed over that fact! Secondly I took early retirement from work in 1995 so any problem could not be related to my work at that time. Thirdly there is no record in my doctors notes of him/they sending in a claim to ACC in 1997 citing OOS as the complaint (I checked this with my present doctor prior to the review). Last but not least I had no contact with my present doctor until 1999 which was due to an unrelated complaint i.e a broken finger. I can't say that I relish another round with ACC but It's bound to happen at my age but I must say I enjoy a good fight and believe me I will never lie down and take that sort of c**p from ACC or anyone. Regards Gordon.	Gordon62 (11771)
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