Case Summaries - Listed by year and month

December 2011

• Accommodating work restrictions
• Employer complaint: Appeal on transfer of costs
• Employer penalty process
• Independent medical examinations
• Practice guidelines for 72-month review
• Repairing a wheelchair
• Worker complaint: Delayed appeal decision

December 2010

• Assessment of work on the night shift
• Final LOE review
• Notice of termination of benefits
• Psychiatric issues

December 2009

• Addressing delayed decision
• Considering new information in the decision-making process
• Director resolves information gap
• Protecting Privacy
• Reducing red tape
• Unintended effect of change in the process

December 2008

• Delay in deciding expense payments
• Implementing an ARO decision
• LMR decision-making process
• No unfairness found
• Young worker with a permanent impairment

December 2007

• Benefit explanation provided
• Implementing WSIAT decision
• Processing travel expenses

November 2007

• Employer departure premium
• Home modifications
• Social work consultation

March 2007

• Calculating earnings basis - concurrent jobs
• Implementing an ARO decision
• Sending out objection forms
• Workload

October 2006

• Explanation of benefits
• Notice of assignment of benefits
• Personal care allowance
• Worker participation in Appeals Resolution Officer hearing of an employer appeal

August 2006

• Access to investigation documents
• Impartiality
• Multiple adjudicators
• No accident report

March 2006

• Transfer-of-cost employers

November 2005

• 72 Month Loss Of Earnings (LOE) Review

June 2005

• Implementation of WSIAT decision

2005

• Bias complaint
• Chiropractic treatment
• Delayed decision
• Delayed decisions
• Dental benefits
• Evidence overlooked
• Implementation of WSIAT decision
• Notice of adverse decision
• Non-economic loss reassessment
• Sufficiency of medical evidence