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By MAGGIE TAIT – NZPA, New Zealand
A company is being hit with a $1 million bill because ACC says the shooting of an employee in its carpark was a workplace accident.
Joel Storey was left paralysed from the waist down after what was believed to have been a botched gang shooting in the carpark of Wairoa’s Affco freezing works on April 11 2003.
In Parliament today National Party MP Anne Tolley asked ACC Minister Ruth Dyson why the company was liable for a gang shooting.
“Can the Minister explain what is work related about someone being shot in an ongoing gang war whilst on a work break sitting in a car in a carpark?”
Ms Dyson said Affco was an accredited employer under an ACC scheme which allows employers to handle accident costs and also gives them the power to overturn their own decisions if they made a mistake. She said Affco’s board of directors made the decision to give Mr Storey work related cover.
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