Just paying lawyers

The rise in the cost of auto insurance claims in Ontario has more to do with our insurance industry’s policy of aggressive defence tactics driving up costs over the last two decades than actual payouts to accident victims. By over-assessing legitimate claimants and by the use of bogus medical reports by for-hire physicians that are harmful to accident victims, insurers have steadily increased the cost of claims and delayed payouts to victims, while clogging up our court system. Consumers often have to pay for their own treatment and have years of litigation to get the benefits they paid for. How is “unnecessary costs related to catastrophic injuries are taken out so that money goes to people who really need it” not slashing benefits when it is based on making it more difficult to qualify? How can cutting off rehab benefits at $50,000 for those who are most injured and suggesting they “ask” for more if they need it possibly be in the interests of injured drivers? How is that not slashing?

Rhona DesRoches

Board Chair, FAIR (Association of Victims for Accident Insurance Reform)

(It would seem the IBC is losing this argument)

_{Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/09/13/letters-to-the-editor-sept-15}