Think about this:
You have a career you have been working towards for years. You are now where you want to be, doing what you want to do. You are respected, and your benefits and pay are amazing.
Unknown to you you're about to lose almost everything.

Hello. I was born on November 16 1968. I have been married for almost twenty years. I am a strong supporting member of my whole family. I have been working since the age of thirteen due to the necessity to survive amongst a then broken family. I worked part time after school to help make ends meet and have held that ethic to self resourcefulness through life and it has greatly benefited me financially and emotionally.

On November 18 1998, I was employed as an onset dresser in the set decorating department within the Film Industry. This is a unionized position. $23.00 and hour with a minimum of 12 hours a day work. My net income per day was $275.00 to $325.00 Daily. I signed a union supported contract with MGM to work on the series The Outer Limits. This series continued to run after I had signed the contract for a period of three more years. I was considered after signing the contract to be part of the core crew of the series and that I was required to work full time five days a week, minimum 12 hours a day and that was a term of the contract. I agreed to that contract, and the contract was respected by the producers. We set forth for a long term professional relationship.

Prior to my employment to The Outer Limits I had also signed the same term contract with MGM for another one of their series called “Poltergeist” that contract was fulfilled in full by both parties in 1997. It was at this first introduction to working with MGM that a good solid working relationship had begun. My career that took years of volunteering and working as a permitee was showing to be a very fruitful decision.


With that success under way my Wife and I were living well. We had a nice, comfortable home. We had a very nice vehicle, a $49’000.00 Ford Truck that was mostly paid off within two years. A credit line with no balance on it; a Platinum card. We were living on the border of North and West Vancouver. We were secure and we had worked hard towards that security.


On November 18 1998 I suffered a work related injury and at that point our life was about to change. At that time we had no idea the learning curve we were about to become a part of by dealing with the WCB. At that point we were aware of the hardships of life, but we had no idea that fellow human beings could be so cruel. At least not in the part of the world we live in.

It has been constant battle and hardship dealing with WCB . It has been a series of constant probing of personal and family related information that had nothing to do with the work related injury. From day one WCB has been working an angle. After I answered tons of non injury related questions; one of my adjudicators made several references to the passing of my father and made reference to his suicide as being something associated with my claim, anger at the world, and the result of any failures I might encounter. I was never angry at the world, and before my injury our life was a success. I was upset that she forged my signature and falsified a doctor approval. And that was it. She decided she would turn it into something else in hopes that it would upset me enough that I would give her the excuse she needed. I never did provide her with that excuse so her Manager decided to make one up and falsified that I did make a threat. Later on in some remote sense of reasoning they decided to recant the false accusation and remove the reference to my fathers passing from the file and had the document guardian do so.

It would be interesting to see, and I mean this in the greatest respect, forgive me if this bothers anyone.I would like to see someone try and convince our Premier of that gross logic that the adjudicator used. Events like that usually make the survivors of the event stronger, more persistent, resourceful, and reluctant to accepting failure because the value of life to them is much stronger. Also the value of family is more greatly respected. So the adjudicators gross assumptions were very off base; and calculated as a provocation. After my constant contact with other injured workers I found out that this tactic is commonly used by the board adjudicators. Similar to the board somehow forgetting to pay benefits during three weeks around Christmas, which we all know is one of the most difficult times of year for anyone.

Thank you for reading this so far, hopefully you are not just scanning this. The reason for details and the length of this letter is to show the actual affects and results of our claim.



Our claim has been wrongly terminated several times because of the boards denial of the actual injury. After the first wrongful termination of our claim assistance from the board had ceased for over a year. Our family had to wait out and endure the appeals process. During that time, our savings in our bank accounts were being dwindled down to nothing, and our RSPS were cashed in. We were almost to the point of maxxing out our credit trying to survive. We also had to pay for prescriptions and my therapy for my injury on our own at that point. I was forced to return back to my work while still dealing with my injury and as a result this caused a serious relapse in my injury. I had no choice; work injured or lose everything else we had. I was forced at that point to work injured and exausted. We won an appeal years later, yet again proving that our claim should not have been closed.


What was the result of that reactivation of the claim? A repeat performance of how they handled the claim years before, and at that point the board was still denying the actual real injury, but now because they had wrongly terminated the claim before, they now called my condition preexisting. Later on in another appeal it was found that there was not actually preexisting conditions. The fact was the injury happened on November 18 1998 and never went away. It was constant and chronic. To this day we are still dealing with the consequences of the injury.


The WCB makes claim that their pain program should make my pain not relevant to the quality of our life. Or that it would help me cope with my pain. Reality, I have not had a complete nights sleep in over nine years. My injury and chronic pain wakes me up every night between two and five am and makes it almost impossible to fall asleep again. My wife is now conditioned to the fact of also having broken sleep because of my injury. We now live like this everyday.


The pain program provided by the board, was talking sessions and cookie cutter exercises. Basically a person with a wrist injury was receiving the same therapy that a person with a back injury was. I equate the logic of the WCB pain program to the idea that praying alone can cure cancer or any other disease. The only way to control pain and repair an injury is targeted therapy specific to the injury. The board was too busy coming up with poorly executed ways to terminate my claim and too busy denying the injury to be able to provide specific targeted therapy for my actual injury. So in fact, I appreciate the long talks the WCB programs provided, and I want to thank them for allowing me to use the gym to condition myself. During that process it would have been more productive and a better use of my employers money if WCB actually provided therapy specific to my injury and condition instead of denying me that. We are not products; we are not a standardized toaster heading into the shop for warranty. It does not work that way for humans, even though the board does refer to me as DC98*2*7*8.



After the pain therapy program the board put me through another cookie cutter health club return to work program, but was still denying the damage to my nerves and my SI joint injury which was my actual injury. So during that visit to that program there was no treatment specific to my injury and my chronic pain was still very much real and severe. During that process of treatment you were followed around and chastised for not being productive if you needed to stop repetitive activities. At that time none of exercises or work sims were actually similar to my work environment. I was informed that they did not want my injury to worsen in their environment so my program was slightly modified. I can tell you it was more than slightly modified. Even at the pace that was provided, my ability to sleep at night was reduced to two to three hours.


After my short visit to the work club camp my claim was terminated. I was told by the board even though they knew I could not fulfill the requirements to fully return to my job; I was yet again booted off assistance, and still my actual injury was not accepted. In fact the consulting firm hired by the board for that program told me in a meeting that I should focus on hanging pictures and drapes and suggested to me to see if I could find a producer that was willing pay me for four hours a day doing just that. That suggestion fully describes the ignorance the board has in regards to what is actually involved in my job.


It was gleefully mentioned to me by the same claims manager that if I did not approve of the termination of my claim “ I could always appeal it”. At that point I knew what that meant. A repeat of the same. And this time I knew we would lose everything we worked for. I would have to work full duties with only three to five hours a sleep a night. Still with my actual injury being denied. I had Sciatica, my back was in constant pain, My top of my leg was constantly inflamed my right foot had massive purple inflammation, I had hair loss on my right leg. Hip pain, right leg pain, back pain, constant pain complications, but I was told I could hang curtains and pictures and everything would just be normal.


We appealed that decision. Years later we won, but at the same rate the board was not accepting the actual injury. In the meantime we lost everything we had worked for . I tried to secure solid employment, even trying pumping gas part time or working for the janitorial company I had worked for when I was a teenager. I called all my former employers and tried to work out some agreement that could work for the both of us. I even offered to volunteer. I had the idea that they knew how hard I worked, and how loyal I was, and that form of relationship was very real. I also wanted to prove that I would not be a risk and would work for free on a trial basis to prove that. I even suggested that if my injury was complicating my job I would just walk away. That was very difficult to offer but I offered it just the same. I was scared, upset, was failing. Things were hard.




No one gets a job in the film industry handed to them.It is not like applying to a non union job and the next day you have work. I had proven myself over the years and I thought that meant something. The reality was it did mean something, a lot of my past employers offered a lot of support, but not in the way of employment. Truth is, I was, and still am dealing with serious health complications due to that injury and as much as someone once loved your work the likelihood of securing a commitment is almost impossible if your employer knows you have an injury and on going complications. You are considered too much of a risk to employ. That is the bottom line. The Board has imposed enough fear into business' that there is not an interest to hire such a liability. It is just better for employers to hire the next healthy person that applies. And due to the unemployment rate in this province there are a lot of healthy people applying for work.


Eventually after the long and a third appeal period I was considered for vocational rehab. There was an excessive delay due to having to appeal and for my paperwork to be shifted from one cubicle in the same office to the next. At the point of activation of my vocational rehab all our assets were gone and my wife and I were surviving on our last threads of our hard earned credit. So when vocational rehab benefits did come in over 70% of the money we received went to trying to pay back our creditors and trying to re establish those relationships. I explained all of this to my vocational rehab consultant and asked for a managers review for retroactive benefits so it could help us put that priority in order. I received every denial excuse he could give.


We had discussed all of my efforts to secure work including the details I outlined in this letter. I was told that because my efforts did not secure employment and that the majority of my focus was to returning to the film industry and prior employment, that the board was not willing to accept those efforts and that I should start fresh and move on. Because my vocation rehab consultant would always answer a question with a question and was suggestive that he could close my claim again if he just felt like it. I took his advice and moved on. My family was in enough financial trouble as it was. I could not stand the idea of being forced to appeal again. I would just work along as well as I could or we would be forced into bankruptcy and lose 100% of everything we earned. I had pulled from every work related asset I had over the past couple of years and I knew it would be difficult to keep the board from finding another poor executed excuse to terminate my claim. Also at that point my actual injury was not accepted by the board. Any evaluation that was placed ignored the severity of the injury. I was still suffering to such a degree that I was exhausted and unable to have a complete nights sleep.



We were broke, in debt, and still dealing with my injury on our own. I placed several realistic proposals in front of the board that was equal to what I was earning in the film industry. They refused them, stating it would take too long or that I could not handle the hours, that I needed a letter of intent from an employer, excuse after excuse and at the same time spending a lot of time setting another hoop for us to jump through. It takes years of hard work to get established in the film industry. It was impossible to be brought up to that level in 8 months. But, the board expected me to do that.


Then the fantastic lie came in from my vocational rehab consultant, he gave my one more hoop to jump through. He explained that if I came up with a job, any job that looked like it could bring me some security and I could get a letter of intent, he would put it through and would not terminate my benefits and would have the manager consider retroactive benefits. The next day he did terminate my benefits and told me to get back to him. Two months had passed again without benefits and my wife and I were in the process of retaining an estate lawyer to claim bankruptcy. That point had finally reached us.


I tried to secure employment or at least a commitment. I called everyone I knew and had worked for in the the past again. I did finally secure employment. With a bike store that I had volunteered at a year earlier. It was not ideal, it did not compare to the film industry but they were willing to give me a chance. When you are at that level of loss and suffering you will go to anyone that will accept you. So I did. We signed a contract and wcb payments were activated again. I did’t know it at the time but when my vocational rehab consultant put though the proposal to his head office he quoted figures to them that were from a completely different trade from the ones I would be training for.He stated the proposal would be a fair reflection that was comparable to my previous employment in the film industry. He said that from the day of starting my new vocational training employment I would be in the same secure position I was in before I was injured. What a crock! That statement even to the layman is insane.We were at odds of losing everything.We were given the impression that at least if we do receive the benefits retroactively we can cure our financial situation; start at a slow pace, and rebuild our life.


Within a day of signing the contract the owner of the bike store stated she could not pay the dollar amount that she agreed upon in the contract and that new mechanics never start at that amount and I would never get any benefits until I had established myself at that job for a few years. I talked to one of the mechanics who had been there for over three years and he told me he had been stuck at $12.00 and hour for the past three years and was never promised any benefits. He was a good mechanic actually the best one in the shop.



The head mechanic that was there at the time I started was the exact opposite of the other mechanic I just described. He had a lot of bicycle knowledge but half the time was not willing to share it. In his first years of service at the store he was doing ok but then his lack of social skills and alcoholism turned him into a real creep. Anyone who asked him a question most times would be told to F off. Sometimes even customers were sworn at. I was supposed to be trained by this guy! The only time I ever received information from him was when he thought I was doing something wrong. Then he would not even tell me how to do it right. He actually thought it was funny that I had to move his motorcycle that weighed over a ton outside every morning out the narrow rear fire exit door. To move this old piece of junk you had to lift the back end of the motorcycle because the rear drum was seized. He did not have anywhere else to store it and it needed to be taken out each morning so the exit could be cleared and so repair bikes could be stored outside the back of the building. This process had to be repeated by the evening staff bringing It In. He never once took my injury seriously. And actually did the exact opposite requesting that I unload 65 pound bike boxes out of trucks alone. And told me it would just take just one phone call to f-up my claim. For some reason he thought it was funny.


One day the manager of the warranty department finally told him to leave me alone and that I was already dealing with enough complications in my life. The head mechanics rebuttal was that that was BS and that WCB was paying me extra to be there so I did not deserve any special treatment because I was being paid by the board and for us to just live with it. I told my vocational rehab consultant not to tell anyone about the financial help as it would cause this kind of reaction. My Vocational rehab consultant knew this at the time. The accountant at the shop was the common law wife of the head mechanic. My vocational rehab consultant did not keep the secret very long regarding my wages being topped up by wcb. Later on after that argument between the managers I came back from lunch and found my $350.00 cordless screw gun in the staff room toilet it was even pissed on. The mentality in that work environment was more like being back in High school. I tolerated as much of this garbage that I could stand.


I called my vocational rehab consultant and told him that the work environment I was now in was not what we agreed on. There was no consideration for my injury, we were now in the midst of claiming bankruptcy. The pay was not the $16.00 an hour with a top up and benefits; it was $ 12.00 with no benefits. I was getting 4 hours sleep a night. It was a mess.

Keep in mind also that my union rate at the time I was injured was $23.75 per hour, minimum twelve hours a day with overtime, benefits, and was equal to $275.00 to $325.00 take home per day! The bike store gave me $75.00 take home per day.

Side Note:

We did a survey with twenty children between the ages of eight and twelve.

The question they were asked was:
Who do you think makes more money? A person that works on movies/TV ( not including actors ) and is part of a union, or the person that fixes a bicycle?

All of them replied with the same answer:
"The person that works on movies/TV"!

Wow! This is Something That worksafe/WCB could not figure out, but a few children did. Amazing. WCB/Worksafe says "so what it was your choice".
Our options were narrowed to fit into a box. Our family was losing everything.

No....

We didn't have a choice.

Except the option of getting nothing.


Please keep in mind I am 39 years old and this was what I was dealing with. While going through a bankruptcy, living in chronic pain, and an injury that was not properly accepted by the board. My vocation rehab consultant didn’t want to discuss it. instead he opted to criticize me for having a web site that described my situation with the board. He stated that if I took it down he might be able to help me.


He lied to me before, so at that point I knew I was being dumped again.
We were not going to get any help. We were screwed.


FEAR.....

We put forward to file bankruptcy. We borrowed some money from family and friends to do so. We had to. Even at that, those who helped us really could not afford to do so. But they did. We were usually their back-up, and now we owe them.

One of our friends that did lend us some money; her Mother works for WCB in another province. WCB tried to shaft our friends Mother out of getting her pension for when she retires from WCB.

So word to the injured.
The corruption happens on the inside too!

Everyone around us knew our hardship and the realities of the injury. My family and friends were also witnessing the diminishing of my health and my problems with severe chronic pain. I had lost 47 pounds at that point. Sleep is and was difficult. I was dealing with constant exhaustion from pain. Due to our financial situation, eating regularly was very difficult to afford. Even though our finances were low and the fridge was quite often empty we still continued to eat as well as we could afford.


My Bankruptcy trustee commented at one of our meetings that if it were not for my resourcefulness and responsibility for my families finances we would have needed to come to them years earlier.That also shows how much we did lose. Pecking at our assets for a long time kept us alive. We do have to credit that survival to the assets we were forced to liquidate. Years of saving and hard work.

Slowly... Slowly...

Gone..



Back to the Bike shop

I did try to give it one last shot.With that in mind I still tried to put my best foot forward.


I did everything I could to try and keep the head mechanic off my back. I had to increase my pain medication so I could tolerate the tasks. The common stop breaks to stretch were now out of the question. If I tried to pause for more than a few minutes someone was on me. I tried to keep positive and keep a sense of humor. I would much rather find some hint of humor to help me cope than to get angry or aggressive. The only error of that attitude is that some people confuse that form of tolerance to the situation with acceptance.


If the head mechanic wanted the floor swept, I would do it as usual, and make sure it was mopped too. I unloaded trucks on my own. I started to have to lift 65 pound bikes off from the ceiling fifteen feet above. I was placed on the spot bench which was at the very head of the service department and still tried to fulfill my build quota.

I tried.

Those efforts lead to a serious relapse. My doctor told me not to go to work for a week or so, see how it was, and try and get some rest. Even though I did get time off, I never did get much sleep, which was the usual.

My health was now worse.

I decided at that point it was time to leave. Stay as long as I can to get my schooling and leave.
We had a meeting later on with my vocational rehab consultant. He did more of the same. Badgered me about our web page, refused to fix the problems that were happening. And his assistant that was with him at a meeting proceeded to tell me she had a strain in her back and sometimes it is nasty, but she never complained about having that much pain. Wow, good for her. I had more than a strain.


The head mechanic confused my tolerance for acceptance. He kept up his behavior, and the owners of the shop ignored it. Probably because the guy had ten times the knowledge I had. In his final year there, he seemed to not want to use that knowledge. Plus he wasn’t injured.He had no empathy. The bike shop balanced their priorities and wanted to protect themselves. Also the owners of the bike shop are not baby sitters for an angry head mechanic that is a washed up drunk. I think they knew they could not control him. They feared him.
The owners of that shop were not always on top of their game anyways. The head mechanic before this one managed to embezzle Fifty thousand dollars from the store before he was finally caught. A credit card company found that transactions were going through to credit another card account at three am in the morning on a regular basis. I am not blaming the bike store for this but it goes to show how well they know their staff or the regular operations of their store.


I wasn’t the only person that had problems with him mostly all of the staff did. Quite often some of the younger sales people would come to me first for help. Not because I was that strong of a mechanic yet, but because they knew I would try to help and not tell them to F off and try and humiliate them in front of the customer.


I tried to approach one of the owners about the situation and they told me that’s the way it is in a bike shop. And that I need to get thicker skin. It was not about thicker skin, it was about my health and well-being. In the past I was used to working daily with a film crew of 70 or more people, and not once did I ever encounter problems like this before. Nor was I judged by the same means that this new environment provided.


I decided to leave when the manager of the warranty department left. We both quit on the same day. Plus at that point the only person that was taking the time to show me anything or teach me about the bike shop was about to leave. So I left with him. The bike shop made a cake and had a goodbye party for us both. I just left early. The whole episode made me bothered. I found out later, that that night the head mechanics liver failed from drinking too much alcohol and from long term over drinking. He was in the hospital for a month. I saw him a few months later and he tried to tell me about this car he found for cheap. I just said goodbye and walked away. Friendliness does not repair that type of garbage. I found out shortly after that he is no longer employed at that bike shop. That shop goes through a large volume of staff so it was no surprise.


Moving On.




We put forward the bankruptcy. My injury was not accepted properly. We had no retroactive benefits paid to us. We had lost everything. I had watched my vehicle being towed away because it was repossessed. We had to sell all our assets to survive. I had Sciatic Nerve and SI joint damage. Chronic pain. And still the board was denying the actual injury.

My family and I held on.





When I left the bike store it was not as if I just walked out the door and everything was ok. It was not . We were still dealing with the complications of my injury. And I needed to find an employer that would take my health concerns seriously. Again I pulled from all the resources I had, including help from my union.


Dealing with an injury like this and the complications with it makes it very difficult to secure full time employment. The reality was I need to find work that would allow me to work and work well on the days that my injury was causing the least amount of complications. We knew at this point you can’t control the injury or the good or bad days, it controls you. No matter what preparations you try, or how hard you work towards a balance. With this type injury it ultimately is unpredictable. It is hard enough being able to hold commitments with friends or family for social occasions, never mind work. Even the most looked forward to events on a social level have to be turned down at the last moment. These type of last minute situations have been very hard on my Wife. Even if I suggest to her to go on her own, she refuses to leave me. And most of the people around me who have encountered us turning down plans are disappointed as much as we are, but they don’t blame us either. They have seen the impact this injury has caused. If you have only had two or three hours sleep and you have shooting and constant pain and your leg is giving out, pain that is 7 ( out of 10 ) or more on the pain scale, you are now stuck in confinement. Taking long baths, going for short walks. Stretching, and for the most part stuck flat on your back in severe pain.


We had an appeal hearing that was interesting. Within being there ten seconds I had this feeling that It didn’t matter what I said or did I would be failed.


The upside to that hearing. My sciatic nerve and SI Joint injury was finally accepted. My pension was marked up one point; which does not mean much. The dollar value of that point mark up is equivalent to one months pay that I used to make working in the film industry. How can they call that a pension?

No plateau date was set by WCB/Worksafe on the sciatic nerve and SI joint injury; at that point WCB/worksafe was still denying that the sciatic nerve and SI joint injuries were even part of the claim.

We received a letter from WCB/Worksafe stating that my sciatic nerve damage and damage to my SI joint will not be considered a functional impairment.

How can that be?

We won the appeal.

Now WCB/Worksafe do something about it

We won!

It also proved that the board did not have proper reasons to continuously terminate our claim and cease benefits. I still have the complications of those injuries to this day. The board is refusing to pay for prescriptions, therapy or even helping with the cure. Not one day spent during my term of assistance with the board did they ever do therapy or treatments to assist in the actual injuries.

Never.

The board has kept denying the actual injury for 10 years now.For the most part that final decision five years later was still being rejected by the board. So my wife and I are left to fend for my injuries alone and in a desperate financial state.


The injections into my SI joint to control the pain and heal the injuries will cost us over an excess of $1000.00 that does not include the cost of prescriptions. Where that money will come from we do not know yet. Basically we are in the position that I must go against doctors orders and the recommendations of my union and work injured. That desperate option is our only one. We have nothing else left to pull from. When I do secure work, even for the day I have to make the promise that if I do suffer relapse or more complications from my injury I will just walk away. Otherwise I am too much of a liability because of this injury.


Businesses cannot afford the financial risk. The board seems to have all angles covered for their benefit. If they can’t screw the worker they will screw the employer, usually in most cases, or all cases the board will screw both.


The down side, the chair person of that second to last appeal hearing falsified my testimony when he produced the final decision letter. That was a bit of a shock. At the appeal hearing the appeals chair person made claim that I stated that my starting position at the bike store was as a trainee earning $16.00 an our plus benefits. I never made such a claim. Why because that rate was never respected by the bike store, it never happened. When the chair person did ask what I was actually earning at the bike store he was told $ 12.00 an hour. That was my testimony the chair person did not refer to that actual testimony. And I was never provided with any benefits by the bike store. It was also explained by me to the chair person, the head of my department was not respecting the complications of my injury, and had the attitude that if the board was not compensating or paying for my wage no special provisions needed to be made to accommodate my injury. These are the true facts. Also the chair person misquoted my seniority of my position in the union which tells us he did not even take the time to properly review the evidence that the union provided to him. Also at the opening of the hearing the chair person swayed his hand over a pile of paper claiming he had read through it thoroughly and was familiar with the claim. The pile was like a solid perfect white brick with a seamless curve in the middle. My wife is a professional book binder and we can tell you a read through file six inches thick does not look like that, so for his next hearing I recommend he sorts his props out better.


An item of concern regarding that appeal is that the chair person had the lack of realistic logic. He made claim that the contract with the bike store was being respected by the bike store and WCB. It was not. And he continued to describe the validity of the arrangements of that contract. In contradiction, in the same decision letter the chair person of that appeal completely writes off the validity of the contract that I had with MGM , which has been a serious backer of the film industry for almost a century. Everyone knows who MGM is. The chair person also writes off the validity of the Union enforced contract that I had signed with Outer limits, which is also a very well known series. The Union also provided at the time of the hearing the exact dollar amounts that that contract would have resulted in if I were able to complete the project.


Those numbers were produced by showing my peers within my seniority earnings that had signed the same or similar contracts for the same work. This logic and evidence was accepted in a previous appeal that we had previously won. So yet again the chair person discounted the realistic rational of a previous appeal win. The Appeal chairman also stated that working as a pedal bike mechanic I was not expected to suffer any long term loss of earnings compared to working in my previous occupation as a fully unionized Set Dresser/Decorator in the film industry.



( ? )


I had completed a project before with MGM in 1997 and that proved to be a fruitful career opportunity that leads my wife and I on a good path. We expected the same by signing this new deal with MGM again.



I am a relatively intuitive person and it was found in during a psychological testing process that was provided by the board in the early stages of vocational rehab that I am very objective, kind, and resourceful. In other words I have my wits about me, I am intelligent, honest, hardworking and fair. I am not suffering from mental defect or depression. I had proven to be a strong provider for my family and held on to a strong value system based on honesty and my willingness to succeed. Everyone who I encountered during my training, and evaluations has made reference to me being a nice person and easy to work with. Even the head mechanic at the bike store made reference to the board that I was in fact a nice guy. Most people who are dishonest, combative without cause, and lazy, are not usually referred to in common society as nice people.



One of the first days of vocational rehab, my vocational rehab consultant said he knew the client services manager that I had been dealing with for several years. He said he found her to be a shiny loving wonderful person. This is the same manager that forged my signature, falsified my doctor approvals, denied the actual injury, and falsified that I threatened a member of WCB. Based on that objective knowledge that I know of her it is clear why the board finds me unacceptable and difficult. I am not as they would term comparatively as a shiny loving caring person.






In the eyes of the board sociopathic behavior is normal and the board puts it into to practice for profit. This is not just my opinion. The WCB in the eyes of common society is a menace that is only interested in gaining premiums and denying claims. The board uses projected profit investment model loses as an actual figure to disprove that they are making large amounts of money off the suffering of injured workers. We are not human beings to the board, we are products. The board even uses token pictures of amputees in their ad campaigns to try and claim they help injured workers. Even though there marketing campaigns show they are willing to help the minority, this has been proven time and time again that the board has been failing British Columbians and using marketing campaigns that in fact British Columbians are not buying. We just don’t believe the board. We know WCB is lying and even worse the board yet again uses visible disabilities as a marketing ploy. Again validating the discount of humanity and showing that injured British Columbians are products to use for profit and appearance.



In the past years I have been involved with several injured workers groups. Commonly to assist other workers in knowing they are not alone in this fight.We promote that there is a way to create accountability for being wrongly denied.

Unfortunately during this process We have known four people who were just not strong enough to handle their loss and pain and have committed suicide.

We do not approve of the decision to take your own life.

It is unfortunate they did not know how much they were loved and cared for. They felt everything was gone and they were alone. They felt like they were a failure, and they felt like they were failed.



I would like to add a note at this time to say I made reference to my adjudicator earlier in this letter regarding referring to the passing of my father and the cause of his death. At the point and time of the claim when the adjudicator made her references to his death, I was not yet involved in any injured workers groups and had not known any suicides associated with any claims at that time. Also my father never had a WCB claim, his death was outside of anything to do with the Board.




....Let's change the subject......


The fortunate benefit of us vocalizing our concerns regarding the board is that that effort attracted some interesting allies. Including members of the WCB from this Province and in others. The conditions regarding the information that we did receive was that we were never interested on who they were. We were under the impression that they were not interested in finger pointing, but they were interested in getting some things off their chests on how hard their job was and how difficult it was to execute the decisions. It was a real moral issue to them. That we can understand. We could never do their job and we do not understand how they would want to either. Some just ranted and stated they were only following orders and what they perceived as policy. With comments like that I stated I was familiar with that use of logic as it was similar to a logic that was used extensively in European communities during the thirties and forties. At that point most of that conversation ended there.


We were constantly honest with the WCB in the expectations they would reciprocate honesty. We found that never happened, The board used tactics to line their pockets, to put it bluntly. My signature was forged, my doctor’s approvals were falsified, A manager and adjudicator falsified that I threatened a WCB doctors life.WCB security harassed us. Later on the manager said sorry and stated it was a silly misunderstanding. That harassment and falsification was blatantly an attempt to terminate our claim. It was falsely stated by the board that my condition was pre existing and the board made reference to information constantly that was wrong, and proven to be wrong by the winning of our appeals. Unfortunately at our final appeal hearing our testimony was falsified. Legitimate objective facts were ignored or manipulated on the final decision for the purpose of denying benefits. Basically the WCB was repeating a pattern that even though they knew it was wrong they still kept doing it.


The number one focus of the board was clear. Deny every objective fact of the claim at any cost and to have no concern regarding the well being of the worker or the workers family. Force the injured worker and family into hardship. Make us lose everything and deny the claim. The board committed fraud for their own personal interests at the expense of the injured worker and family.


Even early on I shared some of my ambitions with the board regarding work. They accused me of working while on a claim. Which they found out by surveillance that that was not the case. I thought they would approve and recognize I was trying everything to get my feet back on the ground. No, they tried to use that against us too. Of course they failed at that effort because they knew with time I was not lying to them.




Why does the board do this?



Why ? Well, we can’t tell you why. It is a way of life we will never understand or hope to understand. We are not cruel in our way of life, we have never needed to be. For some reason the board feels the need to, and for that I feel sorry for them. We feel it is the responsibility of an injured worker that is wronged by the board to continue to pursue accountability in a legal ethical way. It is our right as Canadians. It would be our hope that the Board would at least accomplish their mission statement:

To provide the fair and ethical handling of a claim.


Reality…… The board has grossly failed and will continue to fail. Not with ignorance or error, but with intention.

1) Case workers make patients worse and obstruct medical care:


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One deadly tactic is to force a patient back to work or to inappropriate rehab just to see what will happen. We call it deadly because a claimant with MRI evidence of a hot disc lesion was forced into inappropriate rehab and died 2 weeks later of his heart condition. We call this tactic “the Shakedown”.


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Family physicians must be allowed to administer medical care without interference.


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2) In Chronic Pain as little as 10% of cases are diagnosable by conventional examination, CT and MRI. If one wants to make a diagnosis discograms and selective nerve root blocks are necessary but are not made available to patients. hence patients are regularly terminated because “nothing was found”.


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3) MRI’s and CT rarely are of use in CHRONIC pain and do not show the source of pain. Yet negative results are used to conclude the patient is faking


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4) WCB recruits doctors who have similar outlooks to themselves. Without discograms, selective facet blocks, and selective nerve root blocks, they are not operating on tangible evidence; they are operating on their “feelings” on the matter. As disability ratings vary by over 30% by doctors, these feeling can be very inaccurate. The tragedy legacy of cancer patient pain undertreatment underscores how poorly doctors rate pain levels. Operating on feelings is a scam.


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5) Multiple causes of chronic pain are missed by WCB who are supposed to give the patient the benefit of the doubt but do not.


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6) Honesty tests like Waddell signs and consistency testing lack “consistency” and are invalid yet still used. They are as valid as witchhunting.


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7) Psychological decompensation is to be expected in certain chronic pain conditions but is used to contend it is all in their head…


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8) Computer testing for “suitable jobs” does not take into effect many patients have multiple things the matter with them above their main diagnosis and may be socially and otherwise handicapped. A supreme court case in Quebec made it clear handicap had to include ALL problems. There is no evidence counselling someone on a job possibility makes it happen in disabled cases. Canada Disability pension criteria had to be modified to include not just suitable jobs but AVAILABLE and giving sustantive gainful employment - measures ignored by WCB who will terminate cases for any excuse. We call this the “you could be a funeral director” scam.


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9) People who don’t get better can be labelled as “Fibromyalgia” even by specialists. This diagnosis cannot be made in the face or injuries and has a very poor consistency record from doctor to doctor in the literature; it cannot be used to terminate benefits where there is doubt.


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10) Several legal precedents have been made in the supreme court re WCB: Chronic pain without identifiable cause cannot be treated any different than other patient (Nova Scotia 2001) Chronic pain is a valid WCB claim and recompensable. Supreme court 2005 Handicap includes more than just the original injury Supreme court Quebec A worker can refuse rehab s/he deems in inapproppriate without being cut off WCB In an Alberta WCB Case it was ruled that a patient during appeal had the right to cross examine WCB doctors (who are working on their “feelings”) in the conduct of “natural justice”


11) The AMA Guide for disability is old - made before interventional techniques could more determine the cause of back and neck pains. It does not have ratings for chronic pain and does not take age or occupation into account when determining disability. Various Canadian provinces and for example California have had to make changes to how disability ratings are made; this needs to be legislated in British Columbia or will be backward and frankly illegally treat chronic pain patients of underdetermine cause (conveniently made by lack of appropriate testing).

Other:

The first delivery of this letter for the date March 15th 2006. Will be sent to family and to other individuals who have known of this claim or have been affected by this claim that are close to us, and also media sources that have covered this issue or related issues in the past, injured workers support groups will also be contacted. Internet based support groups have our pre-approval to publish, place, and post this letter in it’s entirety minus the use of our name, family names and claim number. Once this letter has been posted, placed or dispatched, please notify us by mail that you have done so. And thank you in advance for your support.


April 2nd 2006 New media sources will be approached to be established or also for us to canvas for support.


The remaining postings for April 20th to May 16th 2006 will be sent to The workers compensation board, Worksafe, WCAT and other sectors of our Canadian and British Colombian Government.


Media and other avenues that we have approached regarding our freedom of speech of our claim, can and will be posted and updated in regards to any follow ups from The Workers Compensation Board, Worksafe and our Government. If in any event there is ill intent set towards myself or family from the Workers Compensation Board, Worksafe, Government, or similar agencies , our media sources will be contacted immediately and at no time will we disclose who those media sources are. We will protect all that support us.


This letter enclosed is to become public knowledge and the property in whole of the public for information sake and must not be manipulated and must be quoted in it’s entirety. For mass production sake we request that our name and family’s name and claim number be removed for protection of our family and we request that that is respected. If it is discussed directly to us and the use of our name or claim number is requested we will review that option giving the credibility of that news source or agent of the media. We do grant that this letter/website in it’s entirety can be mass produced. Posted in letter form, and posted through other media such as the internet given that our privacy be respected or it has been directly cleared from us to do so within the realm of respecting our privacy and safety.


All recipients of this letter will be posted under individual cover. And at no time will we disclose who or how many letters have been produced or released to the public, media or government agencies.




The purpose of this letter must not be contrived or manipulated for it’s intent. It is the right of a Canadian or Canadians to the freedom of speech. We are outlining the objective events of our claim and the effects and impact it has had on our lives and those close to us. We are exercising our freedom of speech within our rights. Thank you.

Here is the list of the individuals who wrongly handled our claim.
Trust us, you earned it.

Karen Boies - Adjudicator. One of the Worst adjudicators to have. Even our professional consultants and other people who have dealt with Karen Boies have complained about her lack of ethics. When Lyle Brydon was wrongly closing our claim once again, Karen Boies peered into our interview window and gave a smart assed look at us. Karen Boies enjoys wrongfully punishing and stepping on others.

Virginia Tupper - Claims manager. This is where it all started. She does not have a problem with turning a blind eye to fraudulent, activities in her office. This is where most of our problems began.

Jim Marshal - Claims Manager. He spends most of his time hiding and putting his head in the sand pretending that WCB is a good thing, and that they are all really good people in his office. Denial is his best defence.

Lyle Brydon - Adjudicator, Useless whiner, shakes and his eyes water when you have meetings with him. At one point I had to ask him if he was ok

Rory Seddon - He loves avoidance. Likes to forget the details that matter and call it an over-site

Rob Coulter - Just does not care, Makes it up as he goes, ignores detail and confuses claims.

Ron Foyle - WCB Security. Mr. Foyle was the puppet they used to call and harass us when Karen Boies and Virginia Tupper fabricated that there was a threat. Is Mr. Foyle's job security? Or is he there as a paid bully?
Get your facts straight Mr. Foyle before you bully someone. The half assed apology we received later actually insulted us more. What? Are you Ten? It was more spite then an actual apology. Ever heard of integrity, being thorough or being objective? Will you do anything or say anything as long as you are paid? Sad.

Allan Kaufman - Vocational Rehab Consultant. He loves provoking and putting little patronising comments your way which he believes is witty. Denial is another one of his traits. He answers a question with a question. Mr. Kaufman told us several times that 75% of WCB staff is Ex RCMP. Why would he keep telling us that? We do not believe him , But if it is true it leaves us pretty bothered considering the RCMP is there to protect us.

Ian J Puchlik WCAT
Mr. Puchlik deserves an honorable mention. Because He is particularly disgusting. Not only at the hearing was it obvious that he did not bother to read the file, he left his decisions to assumption. He also falsified my testimony, & also my union reps testimony. The opening of the meeting he acted like he was a judge in a real court of law. He stated "Do you promise to tell the truth and nothing but the truth". He obviously felt that that did not apply to him. To falsify someones testimony is fraud. To falsify the facts and base your decision on assumption is also fraud. This person takes himself more seriously than he does the responsibilities of his job. If you have Mr. Puchlik at your hearing prepare for the worst. He is what you could call a "Hack" At his job.

Jefferson Rappell - WCB Review Board.
Mr. Rappell completely contradicts himself in his decision. He basically copies Mr. Puchliks decision then adds a little in our favour that contradicts. He accepts the injury and the degree of it quoting that the condition may be worse then previously determined by the board and recommends a disability assessment, but at the same time denies that the injury is permanent. (The injury happened over 7 years ago. The complications still exists today and is getting worse with time. We would not call that temporary). ?

Norman J. Denny - WCAT
Well, Yet again WCAT is showing that it is there for WCB and not the injured worker and family. After they left us hanging for years, forcing us into poverty and bankruptcy by doing things in there own convenient time. They are using the "We will do it when we are ready attitude". We asked for an extension on an appeal because we are waiting for another series of scans this winter. The waiting list for scans is ridiculous and the only way you can speed it up is by paying out of pocket, and we can't do that. When my Union requested the extension, the WCAT deadline they gave us was that all submission had to be due just a little under two weeks before we are able to have the scans done. They refused to extend it another 14 days until after the scans.
So lets see: They are able to ignore us for over two years and force us into bankruptcy and extreme hardship, but they cannot extend us another two weeks for after the scans. WCB and WCAT have so many self made laws and rules that all they have to do is pick a policy from a hat that works only for them. If they needed more time well....they just take it. The injured worker needs more time well, WCB/WCAT pulls out something from their extensive list that only works for them. One sided convenience as usual for them. We are sure WCAT would be able to extend the time for over two weeks after the scans, but as usual they will probably not do such a fair and capable thing. Welcome to the list Mr. Denny.




Joe Pinto - Chief Review Officer WCB/Worksafe BC -
We mentioned earlier that we have allies that were even members of WCB.
In several communications with those allies one name kept coming up. Joe Pinto. All the time we were told; "contact Joe Pinto, Joe Pinto, Joe Pinto"; "he will do something to help your family". After honestly hearing his name over two dozen times you can guess by this page what we did. We contacted him. we can speculate in a somewhat positive way that a lot of people believe in Joe Pinto. We decided maybe we could believe in him too.
The result of contacting him was a sure footed response.
Joe Pinto stated that he does not directly get involved with claims and is not interested in spending any time on this. So does this mean Joe Pinto prefers to be in-directly involved with claims. After all does he not work for WCB/Worksafe? His involvement obviously affects claims; just like sergeant is involved with his troops for a common goal.
Direct or in-direct involvement is participation and responsibility for claims just the same. What is even more difficult for Joe Pinto is the fact that he helps create the foundations for the adjudicators; the guidelines, the strategies. Just like we mentioned before; like a sergeant to his or her troops.He should know better, and he is responsible. The adjudicators follow the structures that Mr.Pinto creates. To say otherwise would be Joe Pinto admitting that he has no control over his implementing of decisions.

We would like Joe Pinto to consider this:

We have had to pay for therapy for the injuries on our own. We have focused on the healing and the finding of a cure for the injuries and chronic pain. We have had to pay for chronic pain medications on our own monthly for ten years so far because of the injuries; Three hundred to six hundred dollars a month for prescriptions alone.
A twenty year relationship with our bank was destroyed because of how our claim was handled. Other creditor relationships that were a decade or more long were destroyed too because of how the claim was handled.
You can't work at WCB/worksafe and wipe your hands clean of the destructive handlings of claims, especially if you are the Chief Review Officer.We assume that title places you in some position of authority

Otherwise. Why is Joe Pinto there?

When claims are neglected and handled incorrectly the injured worker and family are left on there own or out on the street.

Now this situation becomes a burden on British Columbia tax payers.
The injured, and the family of the injured have to find other avenues to survive after the wrongful closing of a claim.We opted to use our hard earned credit status and assets before reaching out to a tax payer burdening situation. Unless of course living on the street in a cardboard box is an opportunity that Joe Pinto believes is an option. Yet again, even living out of a cardboard box is a burden for the tax payers. Squatting is illegal, and now it becomes a problem for the Police.

Joe Pinto; being Chief Review officer for WCB/WORKSAFE; Does that not make you accountable to the handlings of WCB/WORKSAFE?

When a claim is improperly handled and it now becomes a burden to British Columbia Tax payers. Do you not have to answer to our government? Or do you prefer to in-directly deal with our government also?

A lot of preferences of Joe Pinto to not really be directly involved with anything.
Well, at least Joe Pinto gets a paycheck for what he indirectly does. As long as Joe Pinto is ok with that, we guess everyone should be.

?

Well. A decision to not do anything is a decision just the same.

Even though it seems that a lot of people believe in you.

Still.

Welcome to the list Joe Pinto.




We have noticed a common trend in appeals that the decision makers are more concerned with not stepping on the toes of their peers than really making an independent corrective decision. This self minded decision making is not only weak, cowardly, and lazy, but also damaging to the people who really need help.
Mind you this type of person is the only type of person that could function while posturing as a worker at the board or WCAT/Review division.

Now think about this:
Your perfect credit rating is destroyed. You will not be able to mortgage a home again until you are almost 50.You cannot finance a vehicle. Your savings are gone. Your RSP savings are gone.You are forced to leave your home. Your fridge is empty and you have a family to feed. You are not able to afford to have a telephone for years. You are left to pay for your own prescriptions, MRI scans, and treatment. You still have to live day in and day out with the complications of your injury while WCB puts you off for years. We do not know one person who is willing to sacrifice all they have worked for just to be abused by WCB.
We do not feel unique in this situation, we do not feel singled out. The WCB does this to hundreds of people everyday. To people like us, and to people like you. We all work hard to stay safe at our jobs, but if you are injured on the job, trust us you are not safe from the ill and cruel minds at WCB.
It is a corrupt system.

My Wife reported a concern of someone following her while she was walking home from work.
She was walking home and a gold 2006 four door Ford Explorer British Columbia Plate # 980 GLC proceeded to trail behind her for over four km's. She increased her pace and the vehicle still followed, occasionally ducking into parking spots, and then continued the stalking. She was smart and wrote down the plate number and the description of the vehicle.
I explained to her that that was odd and if it happens again we will report it. There is no reason why my wife should be followed. It left us bothered.
Well, today I saw the same Explorer with the same BC Plate number. How I noticed the number was interesting enough. I was harshly cut off in a parking lot down the street from our house. A gold four door Ford Explorer quickly backed out of a parking spot in the mall, nearly hit the front end of my truck then proceeded to speed out of the mall parking lot and through two stop signs without stopping. This was at the south end of the C*p*l*n* Mall parking lot. I was miffed to say the least. I was even more upset when I looked down at the plate number. It was the same BC License plate number my wife gave me before. 980 GLC.
I would like to say at this point that my wife works an honest job, and has never even had a parking ticket in her life. We would also like to add that my wife and I do not have any reason for why someone would be stalking us. The board has done nothing to help us for years.
To our assumption the only reason why we would be followed and harassed is because of our Web Site that you are reading now. The Board has no justification to harass and stalk us. But, it appears to be there style to waste money on surveillance firms instead of doing the eye to eye approach and just doing there job to help. If they did there job right in the first place sites like this would not exist. Stalking is against the law. So is harassing innocent people. My wife and I are innocent. Like We posted earlier on this site. We have always been honest with the board.

The individual with British Columbia License Plate Number 980 GLC you have scared the hell out of my wife and family. This is inappropriate and if you have any satisfaction in upsetting us then you are sick. We do have concern for our safety. It would be appreciated to know that my wife and family are safe. This information will stay on this page for you to find and will stay here. You earned this spot. The public should be aware. We are not backing down. We are British Columbians and we should feel safe.
Every husband is biased and protective. My wife is a very beautiful unique woman she would like to know she is safe to walk to and from work. You have now robbed our sense of safety. What else do you want from us? We have nothing of any value. We lost all of that and you know why.

If You see a Gold 2006 Four Door Ford Explorer British Columbia License Plate Number

The owner of the 2006 Gold Explorer can email us anonymously and let us know your intent. That you intend no harm to our family, and that you will learn to drive safely. Until it is indicated otherwise, We will consider you as malicious and intending harm

Well... Now there appears to be more.

Well, they keep trying. All the time wasting my employer's money to play games. Today there was a blond female, mid thirties, in a Black four door Dodge Ram Dakota, Plate number 402 DDN sitting right behind our truck. Nothing odd about a vehicle sitting behind us, but the strange thing is that while I was walking past the vehicle the person in the Dakota had a silver video camera resting on her window ledge. In the wide open, set right on the ledge of the drivers side window. I had eye contact with the person right after I spotted the camera. Her reaction was simple. She covered her mouth as if to show "Oops I got caught with the camera", and proceeded to grab the camera and attempt to hide it. The performance was sad.
What is even sadder is the fact of : Where was the camera when my other vehicle was repossessed?
Where was the Camera when I came home from vocational rehab supposedly having a new life, and in reality we were being sued by our creditors and losing everything we worked for? ( So much for a new life )
Where was the camera when my wife and I were signing the papers for our bankruptcy and crying?
Where were the cameras when we had no phone for years, and can barely put any food on the table?
But WCB does not want to know about the reality of things, they just want to catch you walking and scratching your nose at the same time. If they do that they say you can work full duties. I am sure they would consider that as professional multi tasking. Similar to the only thing they do all day, besides destroying people lives.
If WCB thinks wasting my employer's money and using surveillance as a harassment tool is funny, you yet again prove us right. You are sad and sick. I used to contract a surveillance company years ago to watch for theft at job sites after hours, and we know how much they get paid. Did you know that with what WCB paid that idiot today that they could have paid for our pain prescriptions for over two months. Or paid for half of another MRI, or even used the money for something useful.
A word to employers this is how these idiots use your money that they take from you. They waste it. They could use it constructively but they don't. They think damaging people's lives is a joke and they also handle it as a joke. It is stupid, selfish and sick.

Whether the person I saw today is connected to the person We saw the other day, well, We don't know. The stalker in the Explorer has not owned up yet to ease our minds. That situation still bothers us. So we are still being careful and we are staying in public view to protect ourselves. We have no idea how they think playing games is going to cure things, but in the meantime while the injured worker is trying to rebuild their life, well you can count on WCB to try and play games with it.
We quote that they act like twelve year olds, well now this makes them more like six year olds that are shallow, hollow, predictable, and stupid. All at the expense of the employer and the quality of the injured workers life.
How can they think any of this is a game by being so wasteful and useless?

"They just don't seem to understand. They act like twelve year olds that do crimes, they know they have a loop-hole that will not make them accountable.
Once someone comes forward with the truth, that twelve year old attitude comes in the form of trying to be a Bully."

Thank You again for your time in reading this.

Injured Worker And Family.

1998-2008

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"So...THE LATEST 2008

We Won our appeal.January 30 2007.

For a year and a half we waited and waited for a response from WorksafeBC, as you can guess Worksafe did not respond to the winning of that appeal. We then needed to take our situation a step further and we contacted the Ombudsman of BC and filed a complaint regarding the Worksafe delay. The Ombudsman's office responded within twelve hours of our complaint ( impressive! ) and then the Ombudsman office continued with a follow up call to WorksafeBC. WorksafeBC explained that for some reason the winning of that appeal was never communicated to them by WCAT. WorksafeBC claimed that they never received any information regarding the winning of that appeal. The Vice chair at WCAT that handled our appeal that supposedly was not communicated was Brian King. We appreciated the results that Brian King came up with that were in our favor, but we are curious on why WorksafeBC supposedly never received those results of winning that appeal. This is an issue that either Brian King or WorksafeBC will have to explain. We are sure that no one will explain why this happened. Personally We believe that this miscommunication was intentional as it seems to happen all the time and has now become quite predictable. Brian King outlined that this accepting of the SI joint injury and damage to the sciatic nerve is a compensable result of the 1998 injury.

Our file was handed to disability awards and we received a .5% percent pension increase that equates to $4621.00, which is equal to what I make net per month working in the film industry or 50% of what we have to pay each year for prescriptions and therapy for dealing with the injury. WorksafeBC's D Morley believes that is a fair amount in regards to this injury and WorksafeBC standards.

Interesting point we need to make.Another government based company Pharmacare, based our pharmacare deductions to the maximum amount claiming that thier deductions are based on a gross annual personal income of $73'000 for the 1997 year and applicable years. Also my gross income per month when I work is between $ 7600.00 and $8400.00 per month. We find it interesting that WCB focused on the year in which my wife and I spent three months in Europe and another month off in the summer and used that year to choose for the year they would use to calculate the annual earnings for pension purposes.

So which government institution is not telling the truth? Or is it that our government just calculates what works for them and discounts any form of honesty. Someone in this situation is not telling the truth.

Now where is the wage loss of this compensable injury? No plateau date has been established on the SI joint injury. Where is the wage loss that was not paid to us that caused us to claim bankruptcy? We were left out in the Cold by Lyle Brydon when he decided that the SI joint injury had nothing to do with the claim. We went through a five year appeals process to prove those findings of Lyle Brydon to be wrong. Now is WorksafeBC doing all they can to rectify this situation.

Without suprise.

No.

Each day whether it is dealing with banks, financial companies, or the chronic pain and injury, we are reminded of how badly our claim has been handled, and how corrupt and un-professional WorksafeBC is. It really is unavoidable. It pecks at our life each day and as a result we will continue to fight for what is right, and create accountability. We will add more names, daily if we have to, as events happen. Add plate numbers, and basically report on what we discover about these people at WorksafeBC. "