Reducing workers' compensation Fraud: A deterrent approach

Occupational Medicine - State of the Art Reviews

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 429-438

  Mah, Douglas R ^a  

^a Workers' Compensation Board Alberta   (Canada)

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ARTICLE; CANADA; FORGERY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ALBERTA; CANADA; FRAUD; HUMANS; UNITED STATES; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 33748954473     PISSN: 0885114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (18)

1. Revised Statutes of Canada 1985, chapter C-46.
2. [1978] 2 Supreme Court Reports 1175.
3. [1993] 2 Supreme Court Reports 5.
4. Section 109.1(1), Workers' Compensation Act, Revised Statutes of Manitoba, 1987, chapter W200.
5. Sections 91 and 92, Constitution Act 1867.
6. Sections 716 through 751, Criminal Code.
7. Insurance Bureau of Canada: Insurance Fraud in Canada: Report of the National Task Force on Insurance Fraud. Toronto, Insurance Bureau of Canada, 1994.
8. Reasons for Judgment of the Honourable D.L. Crowe, Provincial Court Judge, Red Deer, Alberta, Case No. 5100030 P1, October 19, 1995.
9. Workers' Compensation Board of Ontario: Results of "WCB Fraud Overview Questionnaire." Toronto, Ontario, WCB, 1995.
10. Lamoureux L: Fraud - What is it? What's being done? Presented to Workers' Compensation College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 20, 1995.
11. Workers' Compensation Board-Alberta: 1994 Annual Report.
12. See, for example, number 2.4 in the 1996 Corporate objectives of the WCB-Alberta approved by the Board of Directors on July 25, 1996.
13. Section 42, Police Act, 1988, Statutes of Alberta, chapter P-12.01.
14. This section establishes protection from liability for certain persons acting under authority in administering and enforcing the law provided that person acts on reasonable grounds, is justified in doing what he is required or authorized to do and, where applicable, uses only necessary force for that purpose.
15. Sections 12(5), 13, 14 and 15, Workers' Compensation Act, Statutes of Alberta, 1981, Chapter W-16, as amended.
16. Section 8 states: "Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure."
17. (1990), 60 C.C.C. (3d) 460.
18. Section 7 states: "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice."