The province’s workers’ compensation board has rejected allegations that it slashed funding to health-care services and drug benefits to victims of workplace accidents, arguing the board provides fast and specialized care to injured workers. Teahen called those figures, obtained from the WSIB by the Industrial Accident Victims Group through a freedom of information request, inaccurate. “I acknowledge that from time to time, questions about the efficacy of our policies may arise. This is why I believe it’s important to be clear on the facts,” he said. In a four-page letter to injured worker advocates, Workplace Safety and Insurance Board president Tom Teahen added that he was “committed to listening” and was looking “carefully” at a series of complaints raised by doctors, legal clinics and labour groups — including that injured workers are increasingly unable to get the treatment their doctors recommend.

Source: thestar July 05, 2016 13:52 UTC