Liquidators reveal creditors of insolvent childcare centre
22 Dec, 2020 04:38 AM
4 minutes to read A list of creditors of an insolvent Auckland childcare business has been released showing a major trading bank and many Government departments and agencies seeking money, including $171,000 to the Ministry of Justice after a tree seriously injured children.
Pritesh Patel of licensed insolvency practitioners Patel & Co has just released his first report on the business which failed to identify danger posed by a dead tree that toppled and injured toddlers.
Four toddlers were seriously injured at when the tree fell to the ground of the outside play area at Discoveries Educare in Newmarket.
A Marlborough woman is being forced to spend Christmas doing nothing after a slip on town centre pavers left her with serious injuries.
Slippery, wet paving bricks in Blenheim’s central business district.
Photo: Scott Hammond / Stuff / Supplied via LDR
Sandie Wooster was walking into the central business district last Monday when she fell, suffering two fractures to her hip and one to her arm.
Since the accident, Wooster had spent her days bedridden, with her husband helping her move about, shower, and go to the toilet.
She had to cancel plans to see her son in Christchurch for Christmas, and feared she would be unable to return to work as a receptionist when her workplace reopened in mid-January.
Completely failed : ACC to backpay years of compo to quake survivor
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Anna Leask is a senior reporter for the New Zealand Heraldanna.leask@nzherald.co.nz@AnnaLeask A woman almost killed in the Christchurch quake - crawling out of rubble with eight broken vertebrae - has been fighting ACC for more than a year to get injury funding and support reinstated after she was wrongly cut off in 2013.
Bonnie Singh was working as a receptionist at the Southern Ink tattoo studio in February 2011.
She was sitting chatting to trainee tattoo artist and close friend Matti McEachan when the city started to shake.
Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 13:35
NgÄi Tahu Property and the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) today signed an agreement to build a new state-of-the-art ACC office building in Åtepoti Dunedin.
Construction is set to get under way in 2021 at the site of the Dowling Street Carpark. The building, which is a 50:50 joint venture between NgÄi Tahu Property and the ACC Investment Team, will create 8,000 square metres of office space on the site. NgÄi Tahu Property will be the development manager. ACC will lease the building for 20 years from the joint venture.
The project has been actively encouraged by mana whenua and the Dunedin City Council and reflects the long-standing relationship between the city and local Rūnaka, who were in attendance for the signing.
Samoa Ministry Investigating Employee’s Severe Burns Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/19/2013 - 00:00
Man allegedly injured while disposing of uniforms at landfill
By Lanuola Tupufia
APIA, Samoa (Samoa Observer, April 18, 2013) – The health and safety of workers is important at Samoa’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE), according Chief Executive Officer, Taule’ale’ausumai La’avasa Malua.
That’s why it is conducting an internal investigation into an incident where an employee was burnt on the job two weeks ago.
During an interview with the Samoa Observer yesterday, Taule’ale’a said they are investigating why the rubbish was burnt at the landfill and what else occurred there.