When Is Experimental Surgery Payable as PIP Benefits? Supreme Court Defines Threshold for “Reasonably Necessary”

In Krohn v Homeowners Ins Co, issued July 29, 2011, a four member majority of the Michigan Supreme Court defined a legal threshold for determining if experimental medical procedures are “allowable expenses” payable as personal insurance protection benefits under MCL 500.3107(1)(a). In order for such procedures to qualify as “reasonably necessary….