Number of ACC claims for statin injury.
Heather Barker made this Official Information request to Accident Compensation Corporation
Accident Compensation Corporation did not have the information requested.
From: Heather Barker
Dear Accident Compensation Corporation,
I wish to request the number of claimants who have applied for ACC cover due to statin related (treatment) injury or death. This could include rhabdomyolysis, renal failure, myopathy, peripheral neuropathy or polymyalgia rheumatic or any other injury.
I would also like to know how many claimants were accepted by ACC.
Yours faithfully,
Heather Barker
From: Claims
Accident Compensation Corporation
Dear Heather
Thank you for your email. This has been forwarded on to our statistics
department for response. If you have any other queries regarding this
you can email them directly at [email address]
Kind regards
Claims Emails, Inquiry Service Centre, ACC
0800 101 996 PO Box 952 Waikato Mail Centre, Hamilton 3216 / New
Zealand / www.acc.co.nz
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From: Anne Fitzgerald
Accident Compensation Corporation
Dear Ms Barker
Please find attached, ACC's acknowledgement of your request as per your
email of 23 September below.
Yours sincerely
Anne Fitzgerald
Anne Fitzgerald, Advisor, ACC
ACC / Government Services / Justice Centre - Level 7
PO Box 242 / Wellington 6011 / New Zealand / www.acc.co.nz
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From: Anne Fitzgerald
Accident Compensation Corporation
Dear Ms Barker
Please find attached, ACC's response to your Official Information Act
request of 23 September 2013.
Yours sincerely
Anne Fitzgerald
Anne Fitzgerald, Advisor, ACC
ACC / Government Services / Justice Centre - Level 7
PO Box 242 / Wellington 6011 / New Zealand / www.acc.co.nz
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From: Heather Barker
Dear Anne Fitzgerald,
Thank you for the information, however I was expecting data to include all adverse reactions and deaths from simvastatin. In the case of my husband and several others that we know personally - their injury occurred in the period 2001-2004. We know there are around 20 deaths from statins and a considerable number of severe adverse events - this information was from CARM. Is there a reason the data you gave is only from 2005?
Thank you for your help.
Yours sincerely,
Heather Barker
From: Anne Fitzgerald
Accident Compensation Corporation
Dear Ms Barker
Please find attached, ACC's reply to your email of 15 October.
Yours sincerely
Anne Fitzgerald, Advisor, ACC
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ACC were unable to fulfill my request. Apparently they did not hold data about the specific type of statin injuries until after 2005 due to a lack of tracking coding.
From the information which was recorded it appears 6 claims were made for statins, 4 were accepted and 2 declined. The brand of statins was unavailable.
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