A labour arbitrator has served notice that employees who commit benefit fraud will have to…
Toronto firefighter sentenced to six months for benefits fraud
A judge has sentenced a 48-year-old Toronto firefighter to six months in prison for benefits fraud. During the period between February 2009 and October 2013, Bradley Evaschuk submitted 23 fraudulent health benefits claims and 300 forged invoices, totalling $32,000,...
$20M Atlas Copco benefits fraud, kickbacks
Kickbacks for health benefits billed to multinational industrial company Atlas Copco are at the centre of a criminal trial underway in Sudbury, Ont., that’s being billed as one of the largest frauds in northern Ontario history. The case, R. v. Plate, which is...
10 TTC employees charged in connection to multimillion-dollar benefits scam
Ten Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) employees have been charged in connection to a multi-million dollar benefits fraud scam, Toronto police say. The charges come after the transit agency and Manulife Insurance filed a complaint in January 2015 alleging some employees...
31 St. Michael’s Hospital employees fired for benefits claim ‘irregularities’
Thirty-one employees at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto have been fired in relation to “irregularities in some employee health benefit claims,” spokesperson Leslie Shepherd said. The irregularities were discovered during a routine audit, and...