“We have watched the stakeholders and the legislators and their foremost experts spend two decades trying to get the Ontario auto insurance system to run right – but they have repeatedly and stubbornly ignored the key problem – the poor quality of the medico-legal assessments that fuel the disputes which backlog the system,” FAIR stated in a release March 7.
The Progressive Conservative finance critic, Vic Fedeli, also suggested the government needs to address the issue of insurers’ medical assessments in auto claims.
The PC party “suggested a truly independent third party injury-assessment protocol in order to clarify injuries and mitigate the demands for mediation in the first place,” Fedeli said in the legislature March 4. That, he added, “is missing” from Bill 171.