Effective date: July 1, 2013
Application: All claims.
Policy subject: Decision making - Principles
Purpose:
To establish guidelines for determining a worker’s date of injury.
Acute injury means an injury caused by an identifiable work-related incident that results in immediate or near immediate symptoms.
Delayed onset injury means an injury caused by a single or series of work-related incidents or exposures over time that results in a delayed symptom onset.
Section 2(1)(r) of The Workers' Compensation Act, 2013 (the “Act”) states that "injury" means all or any of the following arising out of and in the course of employment:
whichever occurs first.
whichever occurs first.
The Workers’ Compensation Act, 2013
Sections 2(1)(r), 26, 27
(1) January 1, 2014. References updated in accordance with The Workers’ Compensation Act, 2013.
(2) POL 39/80, Date of Injury (effective February 26, 1980 to June 30, 2013).
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