BC Injury Law and ICBC Claims Blog The Importance of Pursuing Part 7 Benefits in an ICBC Injury Claim I've previously written about the important role Part 7 Benefits play in ICBC Injury Claims. In short if you are entitled to receive Part 7 Benefits under your policy of insurance and don't pursue these the Defendant who is responsible for injuring you in a BC Motor Vehicle Collision can reduce the amount of damages that they have to pay you by the amount of benefits you should have received. This argument can be made by a Defendant in a lawsuit even if the injured person applied for the benefits and ICBC refused to pay them.  Reasons for judgement were released this week by the BC Supreme Court showing this principle of BC Injury Law in action. In this week's case ( Sauer v. Scales ) the Plaintiff was injured in a 2004 BC Car Crash and successfully sued the at fault motorist and was awarded damages of over $300,000 ( click here to read my post discussing the trial judgement) After reasons were pronounced the Defendant's lawyer brought a motion to reduce a portion of the award as it covered damages for benefits that the Plaintiff could have received from ICBC under his own policy of insurance.  Specifically the motion was brought relying on Section 83 of the Insurance (Vehicle) Act which holds in part that " A person who has a claim for damages...who...is entitled to receive benefits respecting