Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions this afternoon are for the Minister responsible for the Workers' Compensation Board. In my statement earlier, I gave a bit of a five-year snapshot, Mr. Speaker, of the incidents and the rise of claims by injured workers. It's up about 10 percent in five years and it's quite understandable, given the level of activity in the NWT. But our claims division has rejected two-and-a-half times the number of claims filed from 1999 to 2003. Mr. Speaker, this would certainly seem to indicate that we're taking very much an adversarial position decidedly against injured workers. Can the Minister explain, Mr. Speaker, this disturbing trend in our rejection rate of workers' claims? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Bill Braden on Question 524-15(3): Increase In Workers' Claims Rejections
In the Legislative Assembly on March 2nd, 2005. See this statement in context.
Question 524-15(3): Increase In Workers' Claims Rejections
Item 6: Oral Questions
March 1st, 2005
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