«On the issue
of whether someone has the right to have
psychological impairment combined with physical it is clear cut just as it was prior to the Kusnierz trial decision,» says Neil Wheeler, a partner with Lerners LLP in Toronto who acted for plaintiffs Phillipe and Cecille Desbiens in 2004's Desbiens v. Mordini, which first established the
definition for catastrophic impairment combining
psychological and physical impairment, which had been adopted by the courts and Financial
Services Commission (which regulates accident benefits) up until the Kusnierz case in late 2010.
Definitions and models
of play therapy; How to convince commissioners
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