Brain Injured Claimant Sent Back for New Trial Because of Conflicting Eyewitness Testimony

Duncan v. Mazurek, 2010 BCCA 344 July 26, 2011- The injury claimant was jaywalking across Canada Way in Vancouver when she was hit by a vehicle. The Claimant had no memory of the car accident due to brain injury; the eyewitness evidence conflicted; and the driver that hit the injury claimant died before the personal…

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No Reduction in Brain Injury Award Despite Previous Serious Car Accident Causing Brain Injury

Hosseini-Nejad v. Roy, 2000 BCCA 397 July 26, 2011- This car accident brain injury case has been judicially considered at least four times and is still good law as of the date of this article. In this case ICBC hired lawyers to defend the brain injury claim as the at fault driver did not appear at…

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Car Accident Injury Claimant Awarded over $1.4 million for Brain Injury

In this 17 year old victim car accident brain injury case(Cikojevic v. Timm, 2010 BCSC 800 )the claimant was the middle-seat passenger in the defendant’s compact truck when he drove it off the road and into a tree. The force of the collision threw her head into the windshield hard enough to star it. The defendant…

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