News and Updates

September 10 marks World Suicide Prevention Day. The current international theme, carried across 2024 to 2026, is "Changing the Narrative on Suicide" - a call to move from silence and stigma toward openness and support.

September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. For the medico-legal community, it is a prompt to consider something that rarely enters discussions of assessment quality: cultural safety. 

Few determinations carry more weight than a finding of catastrophic impairment. The designation changes the benefits available, the trajectory of a claim, and often the life of the individual at its centre. 

 PTSD Awareness Month each June - and PTSD Awareness Day on June 27 - is a useful prompt for the medico-legal community to revisit how trauma is assessed.  

For many men, mental health remains the conversation that doesn't happen. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health reports that men account for roughly three in four suicides in Canada, yet are significantly less likely than women to seek treatment for depression, anxiety, or post-traumatic stress.

 June is Brain Injury Awareness Month – an annual prompt for the legal community to revisit how brain injury claims are evaluated.  

Chronic pain is among the most clinically complex and legally contested presentations in personal injury and disability practice.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month - and across Canada, mental health claims are among the most complex, contested, and high-stakes files in personal injury and disability law.

Spring brings warmer weather, increased outdoor activity and a predictable rise in musculoskeletal injury claims. For legal and insurance professionals managing these files, one of the most practically important decisions is selecting the right medical specialty for an Independent Medical Examination (IME).

When conducted by experienced specialists and aligned with the appropriate discipline, the IME process supports transparent, clinically sound decision-making.