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The BC Court of Appeal released reasons for judgement today in a case addressing the recoverability of interest on disbursements in personal injury lawsuits. It was anticipated that the Court would set out a firm answer to this issue. Unfortunately the question remains unanswered as the BC Court of Appeal held that “this is not […]
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As previously discussed, personal injury trials can be risky and expensive. The British Columbia Supreme Court has a so-called ‘loser pays’ system which generally makes the losing side pay the winning side’s costs and disbursements (the hard expenses associated with running a trial such as court filing and expert witness fees). Last month the BC Supreme Court, Victoria Registry, released reasons for judgement […]
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Reasons for judgement were released last week by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, illustrating a welcome development in BC personal injury law. As discussed on previous occasions, injury lawsuits can be expensive and oftentimes individuals rely on their lawyers to finance the costs necessary to prosecute their claim. These costs can easily add up to tens […]
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If parties to a lawsuit can’t agree which disbursements were reasonably incurred they can ask the Court to decide the issue. As recently discussed, it is important for parties to bring appropriate evidence to Court to justify their disbursements. This was further addressed in reasons for judgement released today by the BC Supreme Court, New […]
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Further to my previous post on this topic, reasons for judgement were released this week by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, discussing when an MRI is a reasonable disbursement in a personal injury lawsuit. In today’s case (Farrokhmanesh v. Sahib) the Plaintiff was injured in two BC collisions. He sued for damages and settled his claims […]
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As I’ve written before, personal injury litigation can be an expensive business. It usually costs thousands of dollars if not tens of thousands of dollars to bring an injury claim to trial in the BC Supreme Court. I’m not talking about lawyers fees here either. What I’m referring to is the cost of gathering evidence […]
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Generally speaking it can be very expensive to bring an ICBC injury claim to trial in British Columbia. I’m not talking about lawyers fees here. There are many very well qualified personal injury lawyers in BC who handle ICBC injury claims on a ‘contingency basis’ and most Plaintiffs with a good claim have the luxury […]
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ICBC and the government of BC have had no shortage of tricks up their sleeve to handicap the system against crash victims so the crown corporation monopoly insurer can collect more and pay out less. Many of the measures been unconstitutional or otherwise legally void and this week the BC Court of Appeal declared that […]
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Reasons for judgement were published this week by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, ordering a Defendant to pay over $100,000 in damages following a negligent slide tackle in a recreational soccer game. In the case (Miller v. Cox) the plaintiff suffered a grade 3 dislocation of the right acromioclavicular joint as a result of […]
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BC’s Attorney General has one heck of a track record when it comes to trying to strip the rights of British Columbians in favour of the provincial monopoly auto insurance corporation ICBC. To date the Courts have not been particularly impressed with these “thinly veiled” attempts to take away the public’s rights to “improve the […]