The weight of judicial authority favours claimants: medical bills
need not be tied to an individually traceable prescription slip to be accepted
in a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT). What matters is
whether the bills are referable to the period and nature of treatment, and
whether they are corroborated by the claimant's oral testimony or the hospital
record. The absence of a prescription is a factor the Tribunal may weigh —
particularly where the insurer specifically challenges the bills or the
medicines appear unconnected to the injury — but it is not, by itself, a ground
for wholesale rejection.
The governing principle: linkage over paperwork
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