Law & Policy Submissions

Submission to WSIB Benefits Policy Review

November 14, 2012

Injured workers with real experience in dealing with the Board respond angrily to the case scenarios issued by the Board, stories carefully drafted to garner support for additional erosion of benefits rather than assist policy review. In the proposals, Group urges no…

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Submission to the WSIB 2012 Benefits Policy Review

November 9, 2012

IWC calls for legal discipline in Board policy and decisionmaking (i.e. adjudication in adherence with the law and legal principles rather than the current aggressive and “cost-effective” approach), and for consideration of institutional memory and historical perspective in adjudication (Meredith and Weiler…

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Comments on WSIB case scenarios – 2012 Benefits Policy Review

November 8, 2012

Clinic hoped that looking at some real life scenarios would enlighten about the difficulty that WSIB adjudicators are having applying policy. However what the Board has provided are not case examples representative of a WSIB adjudicator’s caseload but fictional scenarios typical of…

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Submission to Jim Thomas WSIB Policy Consultation

October 29, 2012

ONIWG submission details injured workers concerns: full coverage is excluded from scope of Benefits Policy review; role of KPMG report; need for proper understanding of Meredith principles and legal framework of workers’ compensation; use or misuse of scientific evidence; treatment of age…

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Letter to David Marshall on issues of concern

October 19, 2012

Letter to WSIB President follows up an earlier meeting and correspondence on problems experienced with the system…

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Submission re the proposed changes in the Appeals System

October 6, 2012

Group questions why speeding up the system requires limiting their rights to oral hearings, why modernization requires complicating the current process, and why has the downside risk form been added? Submission includes their recommendations to make the appeals system more efficient.…

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Submission to the Appeals consultation

October 5, 2012

Submission, in Tamil and English, addresses the need to able to access the WSIB’s interpreters in communication with the Board; the need to have appeals heard more quickly but not in the way proposed which adds more stress to the process.…

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What will your office tell an injured worker wanting to launch an appeal?

October 1, 2012

Open letter to all Ontario MPPs alerting them to the requirement in WSIB’s “modernisation” of the appeals system that makes injured workers sign a formal ‘acknowledgment of risk’ – the (downside) risk that if they go ahead with the appeal, the WSIB…

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Submissions on WSIB consultation paper: Modernization of WSIB appeals program

October 1, 2012

Noting the backlog can be addressed without such dramatic means, IWC brief provides detailed analysis of the deeply flawed proposed changes which encroach on the right to appeal and the right to a fair hearing by injured workers. IWC calls for their…

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Submission to the proposed changes to the Appeal System

October 1, 2012

Paper finds the case for change is not made, details why the Board proposals jeopardize access to justice and propose their own suggestions for improvement of the appeal system.…

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