The claimant sought entitlement to housekeeping expenses, and the cost of obtaining her employment file for the insurer. Adjudicator Gosio held that the claimant had proven that she suffered a substantial inability to perform the housekeeping services she normally performed prior to the accident, but that she did not prove that the expenses were incurred. The claimant’s only evidence regarding the economic loss of her sister (the service provider) was a statement in the claimant’s affidavit that the sister took a leave of absence from her employment. The adjudicator also held that the expenses could not be deemed incurred because the insurer had provided the claimant with an explanation of benefits earlier in the claim. The insurer was not required to explain the intricacies of the “incurred expense” definition. Finally, Adjudicator Gosio held that the Tribunal could not order the insurer to pay costs to the claimant for her employment records because the insurer had not acted unreasonably or vexatiously.
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