An Ottawa woman injured in a fall at work says she feels abandoned after the agency that handles workplace insurance claims said pre-existing conditions were to blame for her ongoing pain.
Simultaneously, the board made it a priority to reduce its unfunded liability — the difference between the money the board had versus the future payments it expected to make.
Yachnin said the board owes workers the costs they have had to bear and it has an obligation to do so.In Ontario, more than 300,000 workplaces in the province subscribe to the WSIB. When they do, injured workers must go through the agency, said Yachnin. Yachnin said she regularly sees the WSIB ignore the opinion of treating physicians when it comes to someone's ability to return to work or not.
The board also stated if someone disagrees with a decision, there is a two-level appeals process, including through the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal .- Maryth Yachnin, lawyer at IAVGO community legal clinic Yachnin wrote a report in 2017 that found, in the previous year, the tribunal found the WSIB incorrectly denied benefits "without adequate, or any, evidence or reason" in 75 decisions and, in 56 cases, "ignored medical evidence that showed that the worker had not recovered."
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