The fall session of the Bancroft Institute for Studies on Workers’ Compensation and Work Injury will be held October 3 with a full-day session: “Pre-existing or Related? Workplace Chronic Health Conditions”. Keynote speakers Becky Casey and Peri Ballantyne discuss findings from their recently published study “Diagnosed Chronic Health Conditions Among Injured Workers With Permanent Impairments and the General Population” (Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine). Workshop discussion and panel presentations on both healh and legal perspectives will inform those considering submissions for the upcoming WSIB review of the pre-existing conditions policy. [see details]
Also announced – dates for further 2017/2018 sessions :
- Dec. 4, 2017: Workers’ Compensation in the Precarious Economy
- Mar. 5-6, 2018: Workers’ Compensation and Health/Health Care issues
- May 15, 2018: International Comparators in Compensation and Employment Policy
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