Subject: CFS is now "REAL" in Canada

                                  Mel Karasik wrote:
 
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 DATE:   7/31/98 6:13 PM
 
 RE:     [cfsmail] Company drops CFS disability appeal
 
 COMPANY DROPS CFS DISABILITY APPEAL
 Friday, July 31, 1998
 
 The July 29 edition of Canada's Edmonton Journal reports that Crown Life
 Insurance company, which lost a disability lawsuit filed by former employee
 K. Sharon Baillie, has decided to drop its appeal and pay Ms. Baillie
 $213,000, plus $2100 per month until she reaches age 65.  Ms. Baillie's
 disability claim was based on chronic fatigue syndrome.
 
 Ms. Baillie's attorney, Mark Feehan, said that even before Crown Life agreed
 to settle, the company's lawyers said they would not dispute whether CFS is
 organic or psychoneurotic.  He said that this means that the company is
 admitting that CFS is an organic, physical ailment.  This is important, he
 said, because "they can't come back to other people and say they're just
 suffering from a psychoneurotic thing and we're not paying you."
 
 Source of information:  Edmonton Journal