Gary Newhouse

Complaint to the Ombudsman of Ontario: WSIB Refusal to Compensate for Chronic Occupational Stress

November 9, 2016

A request for the Ombudsman to investigate the WSIB’s continued application of legislative provisions and policy that have been found unconstitutional and discriminate against workers suffering chronic occupational mental health disabilities.…

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Re Appeal time limits – Workplace Safety and Insurance Act

June 16, 2016

Time limits on appeals, first introduced into the system with Bill 99, have added unnecessary complexity that adversely affects injured workers’ access to justice – especially those with modest education or for whom English is a second language – and proves a…

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Letter re WSIB draft benefits policies

March 14, 2014

Lawyers’ letter to Premier Wynne protests the explicit attack on the rights of injured workers, calling for the withdrawal of draft policies which codify a massive cutback on benefits and are tantamount to a re-writing of the legislation.…

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Submission re Proposed changes to the Appeals program

September 3, 2012

Lawyer, with over 36 years’ experience representing injured workers, provides historical context for Ontario’s appeal system and, noting the backlog is a crisis of the Board’s own making, delivers a strong critique of proposed changes. In particular, letter addresses the use of…

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