Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Tuesday | November 24, 2009
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Woman opposes insurance company's claim
MONTREAL (AP):

A Canadian woman on sick leave for depression said yesterday she would fight an insurance company's decision to cut her benefits after her agent found photos on Facebook of her vacationing at a bar and at a party. Nathalie Blanchard said yesterday she was diagnosed with major depression and was receiving monthly sick-leave benefits until payments dried up this fall. When Blanchard called her insurance provider, Manulife, to find out why, she says she was told the Facebook photos showed she was able to work. "If you have insurance, be careful. This is a major battle and it's not going to be easy," Blanchard, 29, said in a telephone interview from her home in Bromont Quebec.

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