How have the courts treated chronic pain as an insignificant cause?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from WCAT-2009-02627 (Re), 2009 CanLII 77544 (BC WCAT):
Therefore, keeping in mind Schulmeister v. British Columbia (Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal) 2007 BCSC 1580, particularly at paragraphs 119 and 120, I consider the worker’s chronic pain as an insignificant cause not because it is one amongst many causes; rather, I consider the worker’s chronic pain as insignificant because there is little or no indication in the medical opinion evidence on file that this aspect of the various potential causal factors was associated to more than a de minimis extent with the worker’s psychological symptoms.
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