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Timaru Herald
April 4, 2002
What's in a name
Editorial
The
new ACC laws are designed to focus the scheme back on to injury prevention
first, rehabilitation, and then compensation. Other changes supposedly
correct entitlement anomalies, and the moves are fair enough if they work.
Only time will tell.
But how
come being left a paraplegic, tetraplegic or blind by an accident is worth
$100,000 (the maximum lump sum available), but a person's reputation can be
worth many times that? Or are some of the defamation damages awarded out of
kilter with common sense? Certainly something is wrong.
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