Tag: Mental Stress

Workplace Safety and Insurance Act Amended to Allow Benefit Entitlement for Chronic Mental Stress

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The government’s budget implementation legislation, Bill 127, Stronger, Healthier Ontario Act, recently received Royal Assent. Bill 127 includes amendments to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 (WSIA) to allow entitlement to chronic mental stress for workplace injuries that occur on or after January 1, 2018. Previously, subsections 13(4) and (5) of the WSIA and…

William LeMay Quoted in Law Times

Hicks Morley’s Will LeMay was quoted in the June 9, 2014 edition of Law Times in an article entitled “Lawyers divided on WSIB stress-claim ruling.” The article discusses a Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal panel decision that chronic workplace-related stress could be a valid claim under Ontario’s workplace insurance system, and that some of…