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VICTORIA — B.C.’s Crown auto insurer is on the brink of insolvency, and the province’s attorney general has unveiled last-ditch reforms in an attempt to stave off a taxpayer bailout.

David Eby announced Monday that the Insurance Corp. of B.C. and plaintiff lawyers in automobile injury court cases will only be allowed to use only one expert each and one report each for fast-track claims valued less than $100,000, and up to three experts and three reports each for all other claims.

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The change is effective immediately and “also apply to actions filed before Feb. 11, 2019, where experts and reports have not yet been served,” said Eby.

“The benefits of the adversarial system are what we’re trying to preserve — the idea that people can have a lawyer represent them, a system and a claim,” he said.

“What we’re trying to address are the excesses of the system that don’t advance any interests. It doesn’t advance any interest to have six-plus experts on a claim. It doesn’t advance any interests to have a $50,000 expense to resolve a $100,000 claim.”