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

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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


Attachment Acknowledgement response 26 September.pdf
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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


Attachment Response to OIA request 15 10 2013.pdf
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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
 
  ACC cares about the environment – please don’t print this email
    unless it is really necessary. Thank you.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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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

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From: Anne Fitzgerald
Accident Compensation Corporation


Attachment Response to Ms Barker 18 10 2013.pdf
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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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Heather Barker left an annotation ()

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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