Chronic pain disability from other ailments, not workplace injury

Worker continued to experience pain from shoulder and arm injury, but had already received benefits for that; ongoing pain from CTS, migraines not compensable

An Ontario worker’s chronic pain is from other organic ailments and not related to a partial disability stemming from a workplace injury, the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal has ruled.

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