February 2013: The Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba Research and Workplace Innovation Program has provided funding for a 2 year project that will analyse long duration and severe injury claims among three Canadian provinces, Manitoba, British Columbia, and Ontario.
The study has three aims: 1) to create comparable cohorts of injured workers in the three study provinces; 2) to conduct analyses investigating the trends and variations in long-duration and serious injury claim rates across these three provinces with the goal of identifying the key intra- and inter-jurisdictional drivers of the claims rate; and, 3) to publish an compendium of findings that would serve as a policy and reference tool for compensation systems and other stakeholders.
