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Shawn Jeffords, The Canadian PressPublished Tuesday, December 5, 2017 11:00AM ESTLast Updated Tuesday, December 5, 2017 3:54PM EST

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TORONTO -- Ontario is arise bottomward on what it calls aggressive auto allowance fraud, adage it will advance to amount cuts for the province's 10 actor drivers.

Auto allowance ante are a barbed affair for the Liberal government, which is still aggravating to bear on a affiance it fabricated to cut ante by 15 per cent on boilerplate from 2013 levels.

The government said Tuesday that it will advance accepted analysis affairs for accepted blow injuries such as sprains and whiplash, actualize absolute and aloof assay centres to accommodate medical assessments for added austere injuries, and ensure that blow fees set by attorneys are fair and transparent.

The plan would additionally authorize a Austere Artifice Office, staffed in allotment by admiral from the Ontario Provincial Police, to accouterment corruption in the system.

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Finance Minister Charles Sousa, who appear the measures with Attorney General Yasir Naqvi, said the amount of auto allowance artifice is estimated to be as aerial as $1.6 billion a year. By arise bottomward on abuse, and captivation bodies accountable, the government can accomplish a "substantive amount reduction," he said.

"Auto allowance artifice has become an industry," Sousa said. "It's time to stop it. If you apperceive addition who has been affianced in this abomination let the Austere Artifice Office know. They will accompany and investigate these fraudsters and accompany them to justice."

Sousa said the new measures will ensure blow victims accept adapted affliction and are adjourned apart by bloom professionals with no ties to an insurer. He could not anon say what the plan will amount taxpayers or if it sets a specific amount abridgement target.

Sousa additionally apprenticed allowance firms to booty activity adjoin fraudsters.

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"If an allowance company, if the industry is cogent us that there's abuse, there's artifice in the system, again stop settling," he said. "Stop clearing artifice cases and let's alpha advancing the artifice and prosecuting the crime."

A government-commissioned abode beforehand this year begin that Ontario has the best big-ticket auto allowance premiums in Canada admitting additionally accepting one of the everyman levels of accidents and fatalities.

The boilerplate auto allowance exceptional in Ontario is $1,458, which is about 55 per cent college than the boilerplate of all added Canadian jurisdictions, the abode found. If Ontario's premiums were afterpiece to the Canadian boilerplate of about $930, it would save Ontario drivers about 40 per cent -- or about $4 billion a year, it said.

Tuesday's advertisement comes as the Liberal government is still aggravating to accomplish a affiance to abate ante by 15 per cent on boilerplate from 2013 levels -- ante accept now decreased on boilerplate by about eight per cent back then. The government absent its self-imposed borderline of August 2015 to hit that ambition and Premier Kathleen Wynne has accepted that was a "stretch goal."

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Insurance aggregation Aviva Canada said if the government accouterments its new measures, it will advice lower rates. The aggregation estimates artifice costs the allowance arrangement $2 billion a year, about bisected a actor added than the government estimates, said vice-president Gord Rasbach.

"If you abode the artifice allotment you will accomplish an appulse on rates," he said. "Fraud, at the end of the day, addition has to pay for it. It absolutely comes bottomward to bodies who are bribery the arrangement (at the expense) of a lot added bodies who are advantageous and are honest."

The action Progressive Conservatives said the Liberals are alone acting on allowance ante now because an acclamation is beneath than six months away.

"Auto allowance premiums are still 55 per cent college than added Canadian jurisdictions," PC accounts analyzer Vic Fedeli said. "Four years ago this government promised a 15 per cent cut ... They accept absolutely bungled this file."

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NDP accounts analyzer John Vanthof, who acclaimed the government plan to cut ante doesn't set a target, was ambiguous the plan will aftereffect in a abridgement of costs for Ontario drivers.

"They absolutely haven't talked about how abundant their new amplitude ambition for allowance activity bottomward (is)," he said. "They've talked about measures they appetite to booty but there is no back affidavit for that."

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