Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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They do this by approving payment to some claimants with a minimum of red tape. After all, it wouldn’t look good on their record (if it got around) to deny, out of hand, the majority of claimants (who must go through them) the payment of benefits.

This, though, is exactly what this organization has been able to get away with over the years … with the and abetment of politicians and “governments” at the federal and provincial levels who tacitly allow the WCB to indulge in practices that fly in the face of morality, ethics and this country’s Human Rights laws.

The WCB in Nova Scotia, with which I am most familiar, has free rein to do whatever it deems expedient to settle (read: deny) the legitimate claims of injured workers in this province …and does, with the tacit approval of a government that simply is not concerned about the people it has sworn to protect and the laws it is supposed to adhere to and uphold.

Until the advent of the Internet, the WCB has been able to play its own game and deny legitimate claimants their rights through intimidation … but not before making their lives more painful then their injuries by imposing additional stresses that defy morality and ethics.

The WCB has done to injured claimants what the most heinous pedophile has done to his small victims. After preying on these children, the pedophile will intimidate the child into keeping silent about the unspeakable acts perpetrated upon them.

Just like the sexual predator, the WCB has been able to shut its victims up … until now.
With the advent and popularity of the internet, the stories of the abusive practices by the WCB across this country are beginning to come out … and as the details surface, there are indicators that WCB practices are institutionalized and calculated to lower the percentages of benefits paid to injured workers through a process of misrepresentation, outright lies, and manipulation of the legal process ( with the complicity of governments) to discourage and otherwise deny legitimate claimants their due and just benefits.

All the while, the coffers of the WCB have grown fat with the millions of dollars and accrued interest that has resulted from the collection of “insurance premiums” from employers and, in addition, the input of public tax dollars.

Beginning in 1999, I have met, directly and indirectly, with a number of injured workers within the province of Nova Scotia who all have similar stories … the methods and tricks applied by the WCB have slight variations … with the same objective being obvious in most instances: wear the claimant down, break his resolve to obtain an equitable settlement and, ideally, completely nullify his claim.

To do this, the WCB has made it a requirement that claimants undergo painful ( and useless) sessions of physiotherapy, psychological tests with “professionals” who are, basically, in the employ of the WCB on a by the same lawyers who have acted for the WCB in the past and maintain a relationship there… and it can only be concluded they have exercised those contacts in this instance.

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