(1) This section applies if an insurer incurs costs in obtaining reports, other than legal reports, while managing a claim for compensation in which an injury to a worker created a legal liability in a person to pay damages for the injury independently of this Act.Examples of reports—• medical reports• traffic incident reports
(2) The insurer—(a) is entitled to be indemnified by the person for a reasonable proportion of the costs reasonably incurred by the insurer in obtaining the reports; and(b) may recover from the person as a debt a reasonable proportion of the costs reasonably incurred by the insurer in obtaining the reports.
(3) In deciding what is a reasonable proportion of the costs for subsection (2) , a court must consider the extent to which the report is used for the purposes of managing the claim or deciding liability.
(4) In this section—
"report" includes advice.