The B.C. government is quietly changing legislation that is at the centre of a class action lawsuit making its way through the courts.

The suit, filed in 2020, alleges that the province is illegally using ICBC to tax people for health-care costs by essentially double-dipping on MSP premiums.

The suit says the practice has cost ratepayers hundreds of millions of dollars and driven up insurance costs for decades.

The suit alleges that “for decades, ICBC has been making payments to the provincial Medical Services Plan contrary to law. Those payments have cost ratepayers hundreds of millions of dollars and driven up insurance costs unnecessarily and unlawfully.”

Now, the province has quietly tabled legislation.

“The legislation effectively removes what was being complained of in the cla

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