In a personal injury action, can a plaintiff obtain an in-home occupational therapy assessment?

In Cook v. Glanville, [2012] ONSC 405 (S.C.) at para. 12, McDermid J. expressed the view that a court had discretion under its inherent jurisdiction to order that the plaintiff undergo an in-home occupational therapy assessment. In this decision, the court made it clear that the assessment was not sought as a “diagnostic aid” to the defendants’ medical expert’s report, but rather to permit the preparation of a future care cost report to be prepared by a third party who was a certified life care planner.