Legal action for injuries sustained in course of employment dismissed

Ontario worker hit by truck, driver both in course of employment under WSIA

Legal action for injuries sustained in course of employment dismissed

An Ontario court has upheld a Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal decision that a pedestrian who was hit by a truck cannot pursue personal legal action because both the pedestrian and the truck’s driver were in the course of their employment and thus subject to the province’s workers’ compensation scheme.

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