{"id":9088,"date":"2018-05-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=ff74778757affc2c653fe7b9d7a91534"},"modified":"2018-05-11T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T08:00:00","slug":"after-6-month-wait-cheques-land-on-doorstep-of-sick-ontario-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/11\/after-6-month-wait-cheques-land-on-doorstep-of-sick-ontario-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"After 6-month wait, cheques land on doorstep of sick Ontario worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src='https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.4658189.1526006176!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_460\/mitch-laprade.jpg' alt='Mitch LaPrade' width='460' title='Mitch LaPrade stands on the porch of his home in Long Sault, Ont., holding two envelopes from Ontario&#39;s WSIB, the result of an 11-year battle for a workers&#39; compensation claim.' height='259' \/>                <\/p>\n<p>Mitch LaPrade has been fighting the WSIB for 11 years, arguing his chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) was caused by exposure to a carcinogen called benzene. The highest level of Ontario\u2019s workers\u2019 compensation system ruled in his favour last fall, but his cheques only arrived this week after a CBC investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>                                        Mitch LaPrade has been fighting the WSIB for 11 years, arguing his chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) was caused by exposure to a carcinogen called benzene. The highest level of Ontario\u2019s workers\u2019 compe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9089,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions\/9089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}