Workers' compensation

How to assist injured workers: a guide for physicians in Ontario

January 15, 2015

Advice on gathering information on the work history and providing the medical evidence needed for injured workers’ claims.…

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Platform for Change – draft revision

August 31, 2013

Draft revision prepared for discussion Meredith ‘No Half Measures Conference’ 2013, also presented at Joint OFL/ONIWG Conference, June 2, 2015. Revision of 2004 April 2004 Statement outlining what injured workers want in a just and fair compensation system, originally prepared for the…

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Workers’ compensation: justice not poverty for injured workers

January 1, 2013

Declaration on an all-out assault on the fundamental right to workers’ compensation, a system being designed to fail with a private-insurance approach that hurts injured workers.…

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Presentations to Agency review: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board

July 4, 2012

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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Re: Why the KPMG report on adjudication is so upsetting

December 13, 2011

Clinic details objections to a poorly-researched paper by the external consulting company that advocates disbanding the key tenets of Ontario’s workers compensation system.…

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KPMG compensation for dummies

December 5, 2011

Summary of consultant’s report recommendations that do further damage to injured workers’ rights and benefits; includes link to petition MPPs.…

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ONIWG members identify critical issues with WSIB practices

June 15, 2011

Recent consultations with ONIWG members highlight benefit cuts, expansion of experience rating, and independence of Funding Review as major concerns…

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Justice : speedily and humanely rendered

May 31, 2011

At a time when the funding of Ontario’s workers’ compensation is again under review, a look back at the Meredith Commission. In making difficult decisions on complex issues of who was to pay, how it was to be financed, how long benefits…

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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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