RAF running out of road in litigious battle against fund claimants

The legal options and the room to manoeuvre available to the financially stressed Road Accident Fund appear to be dwindling.

However, the RAF has been unsuccessful in convincing the courts to accept this argument in several high court judgments on this issue.Discovery Health CEO Dr Ron Whelan said on Monday that the RAF has to date not resumed payments of valid claims to medical scheme members despite the clear position of the courts declaring unlawful the RAF’s directive to halt payments of medical scheme members’ valid claims.

Read: RAF appeals ruling that its non-payment of medical aid-covered claims is unlawful Discovery appeals dismissal of call for RAF to resume medical aid claimant payments Discovery Health hails ConCourt’s RAF ruling RAF defiant despite ConCourt ruling Discovery Health seeks further court clarity on RAF medical claims directive RAF notice that saw claimants ‘excluded’ declared unconstitutional Whelan added on Monday that given the RAF’s “concerning conduct” in this regard, Discovery Health was...

Letsoalo told Moneyweb shortly after this judgment was issued that he did not know anything about this contempt of court matter and that the attorneys must “prove where they actually served me any papers”. Acting Judge Irene de Vos earlier this year, at the RAF’s request, provided the reasons for the dismissal of the RAF’s application with costs on a punitive scale.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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