Workers’ Compensation

Employers in Prince Edward Island who missed the Feb. 28 annual registration renewal deadline with the Workers Compensation Board face arbitrary assessments, interest charges, and late filing penalties on their… …

Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal has denied a worker’s request to reopen a decision that rejected his claim for benefits following a 2017 workplace accident, finding no fundamental… …

A form wall at a highrise construction excavation site collapsed in February 2023, trapping a worker beneath it and causing serious injuries, a WorkSafeBC investigation has found. Workers were spraying… …

An Ontario tribunal has ruled that the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board wrongly reduced an injured aircraft painter’s loss-of-earnings benefits during two periods when he was awaiting and recovering from… …

William Laird Cronk has been appointed chair of WorkSafeBC’s board of directors for a three-year term, effective Feb. 26, 2026. The appointment was made by Jennifer Whiteside, B.C.’s Minister of… …

A Nova Scotia workers’ compensation tribunal has ruled that a continuing care assistant who fainted during a night shift at a residential care facility is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits,… …

Twenty-two Nova Scotians died at work or as a result of their work in 2025, with occupational disease fatalities more than doubling compared to the previous year, according to the… …

A New Brunswick workers’ compensation tribunal has ruled that video surveillance of an injured worker competing in barrel races did not prove she was capable of returning to work, overturning… …

The Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia has raised its performance targets for 2026 after exceeding most of its goals in 2025, according to the organization’s newly released operational plan.… …