Is a divisible injury, such as an injury to the same area of the body, impossible to separate?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Decision No. 1885/07, 2016 ONWSIAT 1070 (CanLII):
To quote from Estable v. New, [2011] BCSC 1556, divisible injuries are those which are capable of being separated out… Indivisible injuries are those that cannot be separated, such as aggravation or exacerbation of an earlier injury, an injury to the same area of the body, or global symptoms that are impossible to separate.”[15]
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