Law & Policy Submissions

KPMG Report on WSIB Adjudication: concerns about injured workers paying for WSIB unfunded liability

November 9, 2011

Letter to the Premier, in light of KPMG recommendations which seem aimed at transferring the cost off employers, reminds him of promise not to deal with unfunded liability on the backs of injured workers.…

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Commentary on the WSIB Framework for Policy Development and Renewal

September 19, 2011

IWC urges the Board to shape its policy also on the concept from the original purpose of Meredith’s workers’ compensation legislation: that it is remedial legislation. Legal clinic expresses concern at the process for policy development, evaluation and approval, and the emphasis…

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Letter re Workers’ compensation platforms

August 31, 2011

Letter (Nov. 2, 2010) to leaders of Ontario’s provincial parties, outlining changes and problems with funding and benefit levels in the workers’ compensation system and requesting publication of their policies; addresses deeming, inflation, Serious Injuries Program. Follow-up letter (Aug. 31, 2011) alerts…

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Supplementary submission to the WSIB Funding Review

August 31, 2011

Response to the Marshall submissions, including the Nexus paper and Eckler models on funding levels. Through its emphasis on full pre‐funding of the system and claims cost based rate‐setting, the Marshall scheme threatens to undermine the goals of workers’ compensation as a…

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Follow-up of the submission to the Funding Review

June 13, 2011

After presenting their stories at the public hearing, the injured workers’ group details its concerns on benefit indexation, coverage and employer incentives.…

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Presentation to the WSIB Funding Review

April 27, 2011

Memo on background material for the Group’s presentation to the Review. The written submissions include selected letters by injured workers on the impact of previous Board measures to address the unfunded liability (Bill 165, Bill 99).…

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Submissions to the WSIB Funding Review

April 27, 2011

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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The “Meredith Principles” – economic or humanitarian?

April 18, 2011

Submission to the WSIB Funding Review details for the Chair, with direct reference to Meredith’s Commission hearings and report, the discussion and intent of the adopted recommendations on how the system would be funded.…

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Presentation to the WSIB Funding Review

April 13, 2011

Detailed response and recommendations based on injured worker experiences and research; paper calls for the Chair to follow Meredith’s example and create a balanced vision of a workers’ compensation system, to look beyond the North American norm to European systems that have…

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