Workers’ Compensation

As of January 1, 2018, claims for work-related chronic mental stress have been recognized in workplace compensation cases in Ontario. The vast majority of these chronic mental stress claims however have been unsuccessful given the difficult criteria required to prove these claims. Employment lawyers in Toronto state that a worker is generally entitled to benefits for chronic mental stress “if an appropriately diagnosed mental stress injury is caused by a substantial work-related stressor.” In addition, the WSIB decision-maker must be able to identify what has happened to cause chronic mental stress, including gathering information from co-workers and supervisory staff. This…