In a personal injury action, is a public adjuster’s estimate of repair costs reasonable?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Brandiferri v. Wawanesa Mutual Insurance, et al., 2012 ONSC 2206 (CanLII):
In Rodriguez v. Allstate Insurance Company, [1994] O.J. No. 1686 (S.C.J.), Chapnik J. accepted the reasonableness of the approach of a public adjuster to estimate costs of repair. She noted at paragraph 46: “Since the NFA approach generally meets the test of reasonableness, each item claimed should be accepted by the court in the absence of palpable or overriding error.”
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