Court records also say the WSIB wanted to avoid paying for the expensive medical tests needed to assess her condition.
"It was horrifying. They came into my apartment building. They stood outside of my door and listened to what I was saying to my cat," Micallef said, citing a private investigator's report that, along with the secretly recorded video, was included in her WSIB file.
"They were at my grocery store, in my doctor's waiting room."
Both public and private insurers say they use this kind of surveillance to try to prove fraud. But lawyer John McKinnon from the Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic, says it's more often used to intimidate injured people into dropping their claims or dissuading others from making claims at all.
Ever do any WCB cases? It's wild what they get away with in canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/insurance-surveillance-injured-1.5899254
Is this the kinda shit they do in america too?