With tens of thousands of Ontarians injured each year in auto accidents, and $2,800,000.00 to work with it is unfortunate that the Panel chose to interview a mere 11 MVA victims about their claims experience when designing a system to serve that very group of individuals. It certainly doesn’t speak to a focus on the injured person as the title suggests. The ill-conceived Minor Injury Guideline was designed as an interim measure in 2010 while this evidence-based treatment protocol was developed so with 5 years of history to review, surely the victim sample of recovery results, experiences and/or suggestions should have included a larger group of participants to keep the study relative to the estimated 300,000 MVA injury claims that have been made since the 2010 introduction of the MIG? http://www.fsco.gov.on.ca/en/auto/Pages/minor-injury-treatment-protocol.aspx
FAIR response to the Final Report of the Minor Injury Treatment Protocol Project July 31 2015
OTHER STAKEHOLDER RESPONSES:
ORA Response to the Minor Injury Treatment Protocol Final Report
OPA response to Report on Common Traffic Injuries , July 31, 2015