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- The reward for paying down the WSIB’s unfunded liability? Permanent austerity, if you’re an injured worker.September 27, 2018
With great fanfare (including breathless tweets) the WSIB announced it has eliminated its unfunded liability, ten years ahead of schedule. But the fanfare didn’t end there. We also learned who would enjoy the dividend of full funding: employers, who received a massive reduction in premiums: 29.8% on … Read more »
- Reminder: the deadline for filing 2014-2017 mental stress claims is July 1, 2018June 26, 2018
Recently I blogged about the transition rules for the new mental stress provisions in the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act. One of the transition rules allows workers who sustained a mental stress injury before January 1, 2018, to file a claim and have it adjudicated by the WSIB under the new ment … Read more »
- A plain language guide to the mental stress transition rulesMay 21, 2018
[Note: this is a slightly revised version of a paper I presented to the OBA Workers’ Compensation Section’s 2018 annual conference, A New Era in Workplace Safety and Insurance Law.] In 2017, the Ontario government removed the bar against mental stress claims under the WSIA, replacing it with a new p … Read more »
- The WSIB’s internal documents on adjudicating mental stress claimsMay 15, 2018
We entered a new era in the compensation of work-related mental disorders on January 1st this year: The statutory bar on compensation for “mental stress” claims was removed (prior to January 1, 2018, entitlement was limited to claims for injuries that were “an acute reaction to a sudden and unexpect … Read more »
- IAVGO publishes “Bad Medicine: the WSIB’s transformation of its health care spending”May 26, 2017
It’s been my privilege to work with IAVGO Community Legal Clinic as a co-author of a report on how the WSIB has “transformed” its health care spending since 2010. We describe the effect that the WSIB’s transformation has had on the provision of health care benefits to injured workers, by analyzing t … Read more »