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Advice for injured workers applying for workers’ compensation.…
Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network
How to assist injured workers – a guide for physicians in Ontario
Most cases turn on medical evidence. Guide details how doctors can help ensure injured workers do not lose benefits to which they are entitled.…
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Comment aider les travailleuses et travailleurs blessés – un guide pour les médecins en Ontario
La plupart des dossiers dépendent de la preuve médicale. Sans l’aide du médecin, les travailleuses et travailleurs blessés pourraient perdre leurs prestations.…
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Comment aider travailleuses et travailleurs blessés: un guide pour les médecins en Ontario
Il est essentiel de noter tous les renseignements se rapportant aux lésions d’un(e) employé(e) aux fins d’une demande auprès de la CSPAAT …..…
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How to assist injured workers: a guide for physicians in Ontario
Advice on gathering information on the work history and providing the medical evidence needed for injured workers’ claims.…
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Re Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal access to justice for injured workers
Network urges the Tribunal to address the flood of appeals resulting from the increase in WSIB negative decisions by ensuring they have adequate resources to continue their high standards of administrative justice – to reduce delays without cutting back on oral hearings.…
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A review of WSIB case scenarios
Presentation to the WSIB Benefits Policy Consultation discusses fallacies in the Board’s scenarios of “aggravation basis” and overcompensation, recurrences, permanent impairments; treatment of workers with degenerative conditions that is creating a windfall for employers; KPMG influence on proposed policies.…
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Presentations to Agency review: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
Transcript of presentations by legal advocates and injured workers to the Standing Committee on Government Agencies which address changes to workers’ compensation policies and practices that attack fairness. These include increased claims denial, appeals process, cost-cutting on the backs of workers, deeming,…
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Submission re: KPMG Value for Money Audit (on claims adjudication and administration)
Clinics’ Network critiques the KPMG report for providing a flawed analysis, exceeding the mandate of an independent value for money audit and making policy recommendations based on their misunderstanding of Ontario workers’ compensation law and legal principles. It calls on the Premier…
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Submissions to the WSIB Funding Review
Paper comments on five key issues of the Review. On the appropriate funding level, it notes “the view that the unfunded liability presents a crisis derives from the inappropriate use of private insurance company metrics to the evaluation of the health of…
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