ACC faces looming $5.7 billion bill for treatment injury claims

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ACC faces looming $5.7 billion bill for treatment injury claims

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For surgical mesh alone, 810 claims have been made so far and ACC has paid out $13 million

ACC has $5.7 billion-plus in treatment injury claims forecast over the coming generation, with a severe birth defect dramatically lifting the cost. Senior ACC medical staff highlighted the liability and what can be done about it at last month’s Rotorua GP CME.

About $3.9 billion of ACC’s $5.7 billion treatment injury liability will rest with a handful of neonatal encephalopathy claims The emergence in 2, Nick Kendall, Nick Kendall, ACC treatment injury manager, seeks to reduce birth defects