What are medical assessment tribunals?

Sometimes injured workers need to go to a medical assessment tribunal as part of their workers’ compensation claim.

Medical assessment tribunals are run by Q-COMP’s Tribunal Secretariat and involves an independent panel of doctors who make decisions about your work-related injury.

The decisions could be about your ability to work, any degree of permanent impairment and any disfigurement as a result of your injury.

You need to be referred by your insurer to go to a medical assessment tribunal.

Your insurer usually refers you when:

• there are differing medical opinions about your injury
• the claim has been accepted but it’s unclear if there is an ongoing incapacity
• the degree of permanent impairment from your injury needs to be assessed.

Your insurer should let you know you are being referred to a medical assessment tribunal and will send us the referral paperwork.

After we receive the paperwork, a Q-COMP officer will contact you with your appointment date—the appointment is usually within six weeks from when we received the referral.