Article 17 Costs of obtaining medical records and expert reports

Where a medical practitioner has charged a solicitor a fee for providing a copy of a person’s medical records in support of an application for compensation under the Act or an appeal under section 16 of the Act, the Board may, on presentation of the receipt of the fee from the practitioner, reimburse the solicitor the amount of the fee, in so far as the solicitor has not been and is not to be reimbursed from some other source.

Where a solicitor has obtained an expert report in support of an application for compensation under the Act or an appeal under section 16 of the Act, and the Board considers it was reasonable to obtain the report, the Board may, on presentation of the receipt from the expert of the fee for preparing the report, reimburse the solicitor the amount of that fee, in so far as the solicitor has not been and is not to be reimbursed from some other source.