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To 65 or Back to the (Drawing) Board? To Be Determined

  • 16 octobre 2023
  • John Bartolomeo, lawyer/co-director, Workers' Health and Safety Legal Clinic

This article reviews the reconsideration outcome of WSIAT's Decision No. 243/21R which addressed a Tribunal order to provide loss of earnings benefits to the worker to age 65.

Student Forum, Accidents de travail

Employer Cost Relief in the Context of a Worker's Substance Abuse

  • 16 octobre 2023
  • Cassandra Ma, legal counsel, Bell Canada

This article contains a review of WSIAT Decision No. 339/23 in which an employer sought cost relief (SIEF) for a worker's compensable fatal motor vehicle accident caused by the worker's impaired driving.

Student Forum, Accidents de travail

Benefit Annual Indexing: Outcome of judicial review in Grisales v. WSIB

  • 16 octobre 2023
  • Nikki Banwait, Lawyer, Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP

This article provides a summary of the Divisional Court's decision in Grisales v. WSIB, in which the worker sought court review of the WSIB's method of calculating the consumer price index (CPI) for the purposes of the annual indexation of benefits.

Student Forum, Accidents de travail

WSIAT Stakeholder Event, September 2023: Highlights and Summary

  • 16 octobre 2023
  • Teresa A. Gianfelice, Office of the Worker Advisor

This article provides a summary of key information provided at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal's stakeholder information event held on September 14, 2023.

Student Forum, Accidents de travail

Decision No. 240/22I: Finding discretion in a statutory "must"

  • 14 avril 2023
  • Kira Clarke

This article reviews the finding in Decision No. 240/22I that the statutory requirement within section 13.1(5) -- that a worker "must" file a claim by July 1, 2018 -- is not mandatory. The article examines how the Vice-Chair goes on to read discretion into the statutory language.

Student Forum, Accidents de travail