A Canadian woman who works for IBM has been on a medical sick leave for a year now, due to her clinical major depression. She hasn’t worked in a year, and is still getting a benefits check from the company’s insurance while on her leave. I didn’t even know you could be on sick leave from a job for a year, unless you were in a coma or something. So, while on her sick leave at home trying to get better, the woman frequents her Facebook account in her spare time. Frequents it by doing random applications and, of course, posting pictures of herself. On vacation. At a bar. Or at her birthday party. And an agent from the insurance company decided that she wanted to check these pictures out. The woman decided that she found evidence that suggested the woman was not depressed, and that they are going to deny her claims for insurance benefit checks from now on. The woman is claiming that her doctor is telling her that she needs to go out and have fun with her friends to try and get over the depression, but the insurance company isn’t buying it. They cancelled her benefits, and now she is working with a lawyer to try to get them back. This is a sensitive subject, and I can see both sides. If she’s depressed, she should be trying to get over it with friends. But, I can understand why the insurance company would feel like they were getting taken advantage of after seeing the pictures of the woman vacationing and partying with the free money she was getting from them. It’s impossible to say either way who is right, personally, so I hope they just get this figured out as best as they can for all involved.
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