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Ensure that you are on top of the latest changes and developments in Workplace Safety and Insurance Law and Policy. This hugely popular annual review of current issues and practical strategies features an expert faculty of leading counsel, and medical expert Dr. Michel Lacerte, who will give you the insights, background and tools you need to provide superior representation for your clients at the WSIB and WSIAT.
You will walk away with:
- Practical tips for dealing with the new WSIB policies including the proposed Benefits Policies
- A clear understanding of the medical tests on a neck examination, and assessing pre-existing conditions
- Expert advice on the law of evidence
- An explanation of the WSIB's new approach to adjudicating psychological issues including psychotraumatic disability and chronic pain claims
- A guide for understanding when workplace violence, disasters and assaults are workplace accidents
- Strategies for dealing with self-represented parties, vexatious litigants, and vulnerable parties
- Our annual update on important new WSIAT Decisions
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Stephen C. Roberts, McTague Law Firm LLP - Windsor
Daniel Revington, General Counsel, WSIAT - Toronto
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Case Summary
Submitted By: Dan Revington, General Counsel, WSIAT
Live Medical Examination of the Neck
Dr. Michel Lacerte, Associate Professor, Schulich School of Medicine, Western University - London
Assessing Pre-Existing Conditions and Determining Permanent Impairments
Maryth Yachnin, Industrial Accident Victims' Group of Ontario
Rob A. Boswell, Crawford Chondon & Partners LLP
WSIAT Case Law Update
Gary W. Newhouse, Barrister & Solicitor
WSIAT Case Law Update
Ryan D. Campbell, Rubin Thomlinson LLP
The Vulnerable and the Vexatious
Jim Dimovski, Dimovski Law
Fair's Fair: Facilitating Participatory Rights of Vulnerable, Self-Represented and (Even on Occasion) Vexatious Litigants
Ken Stuebing, CaleyWray, Labour and Employment Lawyers
Seeking The Right Balance: Evidence Before The Tribunal
Craig A. Flood, Koskie Minsky LLP
William M. LeMay, Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP
Guns, Germs And Workers' Comp
Dan Revington, General Counsel, WSIAT
Guns, Germs, and Workers' Comp: Are These Work-Related Accidents?
Jack B. Siegel, Blaney McMurtry LLP
Recent Developments on Entitlement for Psychotraumatic Disability
Joel Schwartz, Industrial Accident Victims' Group of Ontario
Recent Developments in Entitlement to Chronic Pain Disability and Fibromyalgia
John Russell, John Russell Law Offices - Kanata
WSIB Benefits Policy Review 2014: Submissions of the Office of the Worker Adviser
Kevin M. Brown, Office of the Worker Adviser
WSIB's Benefits Policy Review May 2014
Cézanne Charlebois, Charlebois Associates - London