A consistently dissenting voice has come from the group FAIR (the fair association of victims for accident insurance reform), which feels that the provision within Bill 15 for reducing the Prejudgment Interest to 1.3 per cent will only serve to encourage insurers to dispute more claims.
“There needs to be more accountability, not less,” FAIR’s board chair Rhona DesRoches told Insurance Business. “Without anything to discourage them, insurers will be incentivized to systematically deny claims through the use of partisan medical reports prepared by their preferred medico-legal ‘expert’ assessors to deflate a claim.
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