About Hurt Square
Built for Canadians who were hurt and then handed paperwork.
Hurt Square makes recovery documentation for two groups of people. Canadians injured in a motor vehicle collision and Canadians injured at work. We cover every province and every territory, because in this country the place where you were hurt decides almost everything about what happens next.
What we make
After a collision
Guides for drivers, passengers, cyclists and people on foot. Your insurer, your benefits, your forms and the deadlines that apply where the collision happened.
After a workplace injury
The Way Back series. Your board, your benefits, your return to work and your appeal routes, written for the province or territory you were hurt in.
Why the guides come in pairs
Every line comes in two parts. The National Recovery Guide holds the daily record of symptoms, appointments, calls and costs, the part of a claim that no province writes down for you. The Provincial Companion Guide holds the deadlines, forms, boards and appeal routes for your jurisdiction.
People who carry only one tend to end up with a careful record aimed at the wrong process, or the right dates with nothing to put in front of them. Together they cover the whole of it.
The standards we publish to
Every guidance page carries a last-verified date. We re-check them quarterly against the regulator, the board or the legislation itself, and we say which.
Corrections are public. Write to Recovery@hurtsquare.ca. If we published something wrong we fix it and we say what changed.
Plain language is the rule. If a sentence needs a law degree to get through, it gets rewritten until it does not.
The free tools stay free. No paywall, no account, no email required. They will not move behind a signup later.
What Hurt Square is not
Hurt Square is a documentation companion. We are not lawyers, doctors or insurers, and nothing we publish is legal, medical or insurance advice. What we do is help you keep a clear, dated record in your own words, so that the conversations you have with the people who can decide things go better than they otherwise would.
Where this came from
Hurt Square came out of two years spent driving injured people to and from medical appointments, many of them long drives to independent medical examinations hours from home. The same sentence came up on almost every trip.
I don't feel like anyone is listening to me.
Behind it sits more than thirty years of consulting work spent untangling systems that had stopped making sense to the people inside them. The injury was never the whole problem. The problem was that recovery had been surrounded by processes nobody had ever explained.
Designed, written and owned in Canada. Every province and every territory. Contact us any time at Recovery@hurtsquare.ca.
Your Recovery. Documented. Protected.