“Bad Medicine” Report Launch and Organizing Discussion
Bad Medicine Report and Bad Medicine Executive Summary Date: Wednesday, May 24, 10:00 am-12:00 noon Location: 55 University Avenue, Toronto, 14th Floor, Room H1 Event Summary: We will be speaking with “Bad Medicine” co-author Antony Singleton about his research on the WSIB’s in trends in health care provision. The report analyzes the WSIB’s own health care data in
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Coalition Submissions to the Standing Committee on Bill 127, Legislation that Would Give WSIB Unfettered Discretion to Change the Law
On Monday, May 15, 2017, a broad-based Coalition of stakeholder groups provided submissions to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs about Bill 127. A number of other important stakeholders including the Ontario Federation of Labour also appeared and made submissions on the extremely troubling aspects of this legislation. The Coalition members were: Antony
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Important legislative changes proposed
On April 27, 2017, Bill 127, Stronger, Healthier Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2017, passed first reading in the Ontario Legislature. Bill 127 proposed a number of important changes to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 and pre-1997 Workers’ Compensation Act. The notable changes are: Modification of the statutory bar
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Can the Board cut NELs because of non-impairing pre existing conditions? Maybe not.
“A pre-existing condition alone, being an underlying or asymptomatic condition made manifest, in my view, is not sufficient to permit reduction of the NEL benefit.” –Decision No. 3173 16 In Decision 3173 16, the Tribunal issued one of its first decisions about the Board’s new policies on pre-existing conditions. The decision is a limited (but
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Why aren’t we holding experts’ feet to the fire?
So, I see a twitter link to a new court case where an insurance defence expert is criticized for failing to understand his role as an objective expert. The court says that the doctor mischaracterized his current practice and experience in order to downplay the amount of insurance defence work he had done and play
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WSIB Makes Drug Formularies Public after Prolonged Battle with Injured Workers and Advocates
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TORONTO, ON–(January 24, 2017) – The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) made their drug formularies public yesterday after fighting injured workers and advocates for years to keep them secret. IAVGO Community Legal Clinic asked the WSIB to make their formularies public in 2013 so that injured workers and their doctors would
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Notice from WSIB on Publically Available Drug Formularies
Notice of WSIB Posting Formularies Jan 2017
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The WSIB is publicly misrepresenting its return to work statistics, IAVGO, IWC and Gary Newhouse ask for answers
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Day of Action on Health Care – Open Letter
Open Letter to Tom Teahen, President and CEO of WSIB; Kevin Flynn, Minister of Labour; Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario and Members of Provincial Parliament. Injured workers in towns and cities across Ontario will come together on June 10th for a Day of Action on Health Care for Injured Workers. As part of the action, injured workers and
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Injured Workers’ Day Rally & March Stop the Cuts to Workers’ Compensation! Monday June 1st, 11:00am Queen’s Park Our workers’ compensation system is in a state of crisis. Just like we’re seeing with social programs and public services across the map, a regime of extreme austerity reigns at the WSIB, and this has meant a
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