Pamela Glendinning

Employment Insurance offers a Short Term Disability Benefit Program to Employees, for 17 weeks.  Over the past few years, several Employers have been removing their Short Term Disability benefit through their Group Employee Benefit Program and opting to use Employment Insurance.  Since the majority of the claims during the working years are sickness, several companies…

I am afraid the summer got the better of me and my regular Monday post was interrupted last week by me Living a Life Worth Insuring! A little background on this Labour Day weekend we are enjoying. Background The origins of Labour Day can be traced back to April 15, 1872, when the Toronto Trades Assembly…

Welcome dear readers to the final and Part 4 of our series Right Drug, Right Dose?  The Perspective Expands. This has been an incredible journey of learning for me, and the feedback and input I received from you has added greatly to the experience, and I thank you deeply. I am very excited to now be…

Hello there dear readers, and welcome to Part 3 of our series Right Drug, Right Dose?  The Perspective Expands.  And yes, after Part 2 I can hear the collective and very fun "whew" for you.  It was indeed detailed and highly important that you were able to garner the wisdom presented by Dr. Ruslan Dorfman from…

Hello dear readers and welcome to Part 2 of our series Right Drug, Right Dose?  The Perspective Expands.  Before I present today's offering please allow me a moment to thank all of you who have graciously responded to the series so far.  It is indeed warming to me that you take some of your very…

Pharmacogenetics My excitement about the subject we are addressing here continues without abatement, and the more I dig into it, the more I realize the huge impact it is going to have in our insurance industry as the move towards “customized” medical and remedial therapies becomes more in demand. To give you more of the…

I am very excited!  Before I go on I must share with you that, yes, blogs do work. Recently I wrote a blog piece entitled: Right Drug, Right Dose?  As is my usual expectation that the entire community will leap, drop everything they are doing, and devour my missives with unrestrained anticipation.  "Really" you say! …