Psychological Impairment

Case Study of Gao v. Aviva, 2022 CanLII 120024 Gao v. Aviva is a recently published case that explores how psychometric testing results indicating a mental health diagnosis, even in reports whose conclusions directly conflict with each other, can strongly favor a determination that there was a psychological impairment as a result of a MVA. In this case, the applicant was injured in a MVA that occurred on April 20, 2019. She sought accident benefits, some of which the respondent denied, and therefore she brought the matter before the LAT for dispute resolution. The issues were whether the applicant was…