Disability Benefits Conflict Eliminatus A Call For Conflict-Free Initial Adjudication The Conflict Problem The organizations that administer statutory disability benefit programs are also the organizations that adjudicate the claims for those benefits. And it is self-evident that in their statutory …
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Toronto Star, front-page headline – October 5, 2017 “Tribunal Overturns WSIB Practice of Cutting Migrant Aid” NOT ACTUALLY TRUE Time for a Statutory Reform of the Final-Say Procedures The Issue The migrant-worker decision of the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance …
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The Issue and The Context The Board’s post November 2014 operational policies in which the level of permanent impairment resulting from a workplace injury is to be determined by discounting for asymptomatic pre-existing conditions constitute an arbitrary and unlawful repudiation …
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A SURPRISE, A MISSED OPPORTUNITY Pre-existing, Asymptomatic DDD Conditions Not Grounds for Impairment-Rating Reductions (As a Matter of Interpretation) INTRODUCTION If the Ontario WSIB thought that through its November 2014 publication of its Operational Policy on “Determining the Degree of …
No Evidence A Clarion Call for a Public Inquiry Introduction IAVGO Community Legal Clinic recently released its 86-page report, “NO EVIDENCE”.[1] The report is a game-changer. It is a game-changer because it proves, on the basis of unimpeachable evidence, that, …
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