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(19) August 15,
2002: Letter received from
Tower Administrative Company
Requesting for the second time the forms
that are the subject of their letter of July
30, 2002.
Note: Nowhere in any documents
received from AIG including the employees
manual does it state who holds the policy.
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(20) August 15,
2002: Letter from Margaret
to Canada Life
'The letter informed Canada Life that we
would take the necessary legal action
against them for their part in the
conspiracy to delay and or deny Margaret's
claim for short-term disability benefits.
It was obvious
to both Margaret and myself that AIG, Tower
Administrative Services and Canada Life were
not acting in good faith when processing
Margaret's claim for short-term disability
benefits. Six weeks had past. We felt that
AIG were going to do what ever they could to
make sure, she did not get her benefits.
AIG knew they did her a great wrong and if
Margaret got her benefits this would be
evidence of their mistreatment of her.
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(21)
August 23, 2002:
Letter from TAS - More information
required to assess Margaret's claim.
(A ) I phoned TAS (Margaret was ill) and
told her that Margaret filled out the
employee statement form and mailed it with
the forms the week of July 15/02. She stated
that they did not receive it. (If they
didn't receive it how could they forward
Margaret's file to Canada Life?)
(B) We did not know at this time AIG held
the short-term policy, TAS gave us the
impression that Canada Life held it and they
were responsible.
(C) I told TAS, Margaret would not fill out
the form 14 until she was well enough to
consult a lawyer first because of privacy
issues and the fact Margaret would be taking
legal action against AIG. I told her I would
get her a report from her psychiatrist and
forward it to her. She hung up the phone on
me and would not return any of my calls as I
kept trying to get in touch with her all
day.
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(22) September 3,
2002: Letter to Margaret
from Marjory C. Mackay (Human Resources
Manager AIG)
(A) Claims they have not heard from
Margaret. (false statement)
(B) Contains false comments regarding
Margaret's efforts to obtain disability
benefits.
(C) Demands that (which were already
done) Margaret forward forms to TAS or
Canada Life and or return to work by
September 9, 2002 or AIG would assume she
had voluntarily resigned her position with
AIG Life of Canada.
(D) Comments threatening to fire
Margaret, regarding articles on Scoreboard.
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(23) September 3,
2002: Letter to AIG
confirming Margaret has not voluntarily
resigned her position with AIG Life of
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(24) September 3,
2002: Letter from Tennis
Canada
More Ostracism practices to try and
intimidate Ron Hicks from publishing.
The letter from Tennis Canada said they had
been contacted by Blaney McMurtry suggesting
to Tennis Canada, that their logo on our
site indicated to our users that they
"Tennis Canada" was associated with
Scoreboard.
The letter asked us to remove the Tennis
Canada logo but despite the articles on the
website we would still be receiving their
press releases and they welcomed links to
their site.
This letter is
proof that AIG's lawyers (Blaney McMurtry)
were trying to discourage Ron Hicks from
operating Scoreboard's website and exposing
AIG for what they did to Margaret. They
were using unethical practices by defaming
Scoreboard to our sponsors and news
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(25)
September 6, 2002: Letter
from Marjory C. Mackay (Human Resources
Manager AIG)
(A)
They wanted to ensure that Margaret
understood the procedures for claiming STD.
(B) Requesting that Margaret provide the
required documentation and signatures to
TAS.
(C) The letter also states that if AIG do
not receive either the signed forms or
Margaret did not return to work by Monday,
September 16, 2002, they would assume that
she had voluntarily resigned her position
and would take the necessary action to issue
her Record of Employment.
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(26) September 9,
2002: Letter to AIG from Margaret
(1)
In the letter Margaret stated she had her
Doctor fill out all forms that TAS had sent
her. She also had forwarded the employee
statement form (again) and that Margaret
objected to filling out the form 14 (Ontario
Mental Health Act) until she had heard back
from the Ontario Human Rights Commission or
had consulted a lawyer first.
(2) Margaret offers to supply AIG and TAS
with all the information they need from her
Doctors regarding her current claim for
disability benefits.
(3) AIG's actions are forcing her to
either return to work (when she is unfit) or
quit.
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(27) September 11, 2002:
E-mail to: Blaney, McMurtry
Suggesting I (Ron
Hicks) would voluntarily take down the
articles from the website if Margaret
received monies from the short-term
disability plan that she was entitled
to. Also, AIG would agree to resolve
this issue within a certain time frame
and we would not proceed in Criminal
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(28) September 19,
2002: Letter to Tower Administrative
Services
(1) Employment
statement form (second copy signed and
mailed - they claim they did not get the
first one, yet it was in with the
Doctor's forms they acknowledged
receiving)
(2) Form 14 (Mental Health Act)
completed.
(3) Signed letter from Margaret's
Psychiatrist stating, Margaret was too
ill to work. It made clear that Margaret
is depressed and cannot work for an
indefinite period of time.
(4) The Doctor's report on Margaret's
condition from their first meeting of
August 22nd, 2002 was also included. |
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(29) September 20,
2002: E-mail received from Blaney
McMurtry
The e-mail claims to
be in response to my e-mail of Sept. 11,
2002 but the attachment deals only with
procedures to claim disability benefits,
not with my suggestions (27.) |
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September 23, 2002:
E-mail from Blaney McMurtry
More Ostracism
practices
Demands Ron Hicks
remove the articles from Scoreboard's
website or they have instructions to
commence legal action immediately.
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(31) September 23, 2002:
Cheque received for claim
submitted in June 2002
TAS made a statement that
medical benefits Margaret was entitled
to under her benefits plan would not be
paid until her claim was approved by AIG.
(A) It took almost 4
months for Margaret to receive a cheque
for $22.50. The claim was submitted on
June 27, 2002.
(B) We were told by TAS that Margaret
would not get any medical benefits that
were submitted until her claim for
short-term had been approved. This
cheque was sent because Margaret ( via
phone) was able to convince TAS that it
was for a regularly schedule appointment
for her Lichen Planus injection.
(C) For medication
Margaret was forced to rely on free
samples from her Doctors and welfare to
pay for her prescriptions after we ran
out of money. Note: we cashed in all of
our locked-in RRSPs and with my (Ron
Hicks) medical problems I have not been
able to earn an income to cover for the
loss of Margaret's income.
(D) We never had
the monies AIG stated Margaret owed in
their letter dated March 26, 2003.
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(32) September 23, 2002:
Letter received Blaney McMurtry to Ron
Hicks
This letter is the
subject of an e-mail dated Sep. 20,
2002. In addition to dealing with
procedures for applying for short-term
disability payments, it also states
regarding the short-term benefits "that
these benefits are paid for by AIG."
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(33) September
23, 2002 Letter to Mr. Peter
McCarthy (President) AIG Life
Insurance of Canada from Ron Hicks
This letter
explains Margaret health condition
and why we suggest an out-of-court
settlement with AIG. |
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(34) September
26, 2002: Letter from Blaney
McMurtry
More Ostracism
practices
(A) A copy of another letter they
sent to Look Communications' lawyer
that is false in nature and
defamatory to Scoreboard Canada Inc.
and Ron Hicks. They were trying to
get Look to take Scoreboard's
website down. However, Look did not
agree with AIG's statement that the
website defamatory.
(B) Follow up, letter to Look. but
Look still did not comply because
they did not have the authority to
take Scoreboard's website down.
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(35) September
27,2002: Letter received from Mr.
Peter McCarthy President and Chief
Executive Officer AIG
Advising us to
forward all correspondence regarding
AIG Life of Canada and Margaret
Hicks to their legal counsel, at
Blaney McMurtry. |
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