THE PETITION On November 7, 2016, three Toronto workers’ compensation legal clinics (IWC, IAVGO, WHSLC), workers’ compensation lawyer, Gary Newhouse, and this author, formally petitioned the Ontario Ombudsman to investigate the WSIB’s systemic denial of chronic mental stress injury claims. The […]
The UCL empirical study of tribunal adjudication referred to in the previous post which shows that disability claims are 2.5 times more likely to be successful if the tribunal’s decision follows an oral hearing, also examined why that might be
TRIBUNAL DECISION-MAKING THE INFLUENCE OF ORAL HEARINGS ON OUTCOMES AN EMPIRICAL STUDY What would happen if one could take the exact same claim for a statutory benefit and have it adjudicated multiple times by a large number of different appeals
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You may have heard that the Ontario’s Auditor General has reported at length on disastrous delays in OIC appointments to tribunals, boards and agencies – another indicator on a long list of indicators of this government’s disrespect and neglect of
INTRODUCTION “dissemble” – to give a false or misleading appearance. The concept of “dissembling statistics” is conveniently illustrated in Chapter Three of Charles Wheelan’s 2012, New York Times best-selling book, “Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data”, where the
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