Is ICBC required to pay certain medical and rehabilitation expenses?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from MacDonald v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 2014 BCSC 2155 (CanLII):
ICBC is required to pay certain medical and rehabilitation expenses, provided that they come within the above provision. As icbc notes, there are two conditions precedent for mandatory benefits: the expenses must be "necessary" and they must be "as a result of” the injury which arises from the accident: see Boota v. Dhaliwal, 2009 BCCA 586 at para. 75.
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