AUTOTOPIC LAST WEEK, AutoTopics Partnership needed to keep auto claims down mately expect others to do their part. “There must be changes to the way we deal with auto insurance claims to really impact premiums. It means that ICBC’s system for compensating people must im- prove ... and that we have some different attitudes and expecta- tions on the part of people with claims and outside groups such as the legal sysiern and the medical system that deal with those peo- Friday, September 18, 1992 - North Shore News ~ 39 44 This year, were projecting over 1.6 million visits by people recovering from injuries... 99 - ICBC president Robyn Allan =. \ ple. . featured part of ICBC “Part of what we're going to physiotherapists and massage reimburses the plan, those getting president Robyn Allan S$ do today is to call on individual therapists. This year, we're pro- the therapy from a private practi- Statement announcing a motorists, the legal profession, the jecting over 1.6 million visits by tioner will pay the bill and then be humber of new programs to health care industry, the repair people recovering from injuries .... reimoursed by ICBC. reduce costs and to hold the industry and others to contribuie that represents an average increase “This change will give individ- line on Autoplan premiums to the renewal of B.C.’s public of 22% per year in each of the uals a better idea of the costs in- p Pp ° auto insurance system.”’ : last six years, volved in their treatment, which in Allan also announced Allan then outlined a number of ee : : “There are two cost-reduction ‘urn can reduce the number of that ICBC had taken steps new ICBC programs and policies (CBC PRESIDENT Aobyn Allan issues here. One will invoive our visits to therapists ... and overall to cut $8 million out of its dealing with injury and damage takes first step to reducing limiting the amount and cost of costs.’ ‘ 4 claims. costs. _documentation from chiroprac- was operating budge, and “Those programs fall into two tors. The other will see and end to This series will continue next vas aiming at over MU- categories — one involves changes re-focus our ‘in-house’ expertise direct billing to ICBC from thera- week with outlines of new ICBC lion by year-end. to the corporation’s internal pro- and systems to support our ad- pists who have opted out of the programs to curb the cost of vehi- . She said it was important for cesses which wil! have an impact justers. This will mean less Medical Services Plan. While most cle damage claims and legal delays ICBC to take the. first step to on various groups doing business reliance on information developed therapists bill MSP and ICBC _ in settiing injury claims. reduce costs, although those cuts with us, and the other will mean by outside resources such as in- . were not the total solution to the changes to the way we settle dependent adjusters, engineers and corporation’s projected $150 mil- — clai private investigators. lion deficit this year. “ICBC will ‘restructure its “We want to have a firmer VOLVO VOLVO VOLVO Allan said, ‘We have been claims operations with the goal of handle on the cost of medical ser- determined to be the first to take achieving fair settlements in a vices. some firm measures ... becaube shorter time -~ thereby reducing “In 1987, ICBC paid for THE BOTTOM LINE that’s the only way we can legiti- claims-handiing’ costs. 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