Van Dyke Injury Law Blog

September 16, 2020

Heroes, but Still Human: PTSD in Nurses

Throughout COVID-19, people have become increasingly aware of the heroes in our midst: front-line healthcare workers, grocery store clerks, truck drivers and other essential workers we take for granted in our everyday lives. Nurses and other healthcare staff have been in the spotlight as they bravely enter hospitals and care homes every day to care […]

August 31, 2020

WSIB Begins Accepting Miners’ Parkinson’s Disease Claims

It’s been a long time coming, but the WSIB has finally started approving claims for Parkinson’s Disease caused by McIntyre Powder. The fine aluminum powder was inhaled by miners as a preventive measure against a lung disease called silicosis from the 1940s through to the 1970s. The WSIB announced earlier this year that independent research […]

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