'Completely failed': ACC to backpay years of compo to quake survivor 9 minutes to read 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.