Find a Personal Injury Lawyer in British Columbia- Specialization and Preferred Areas of Practice

The Hot new top issues for injury lawyers in British Columbia, usually involving ICBC and car accidents, are not always what injury claimants are interested in hearing about. Finding the right personal injury lawyer to help you with your ICBC claim or other injury claim on the other hand is a critical and important  issue to most…

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Personal Injury Lawyer Establishes Presumption of Negligence with Scant Evidence Winning the Injury Case

In this single car accident injury case (Bassi v. Bassi, 2010 BCSC 1896) the law of presumed negligence just got a shot in the arm. Top personal injury lawyers in BC will want to take notice of this case if the injury claimants are unable to give evidence about how the accident occurred and can only…

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Offer To Settle Injury Claim Must Take Into Account Unpaid ICBC Accident Benefits

If the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, ICBC, lawyer gives an injury claimant an offer to settle their injury case, ICBC is usually entitled to their legal and out of pocket expenses after the date of the offer, if the injury claimant refuses the offer and gets less at trial.  Personal injury lawyers hired to help…

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Unusual Pedestrian Car Accident as Injury Claimant Hit by Friend

In this unusual Vancouver car accident case(Stevanovic v. Petrovic, 2011 BCSC 2) the injury claimant was waiting on the side of the road as his friend approached to pick him up.  The claimant saw his friend and his friend saw him but his friend was showing off and struck the claimant with the right front of his…

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Head Injury ICBC Settlements Involving Limb Injury and Malpractice Allegations

Being a personal injury lawyer in Vancouver British Columbia settling injury claims since 1995 I have dealt with cases in which the injury claimant has suffered a brain and spinal cord injury in a car accident and ICBC claims that the ongoing disability is due to the negligence of the surgeon and not the at…

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Insurance Corporation of British Columiba Offer of Settlement Should have been Accepted

The injury claimant in this Insurance Corporation of British Columbia hit and run case(Dickson v. Insurance Corporation of Canada, 2010 BCSC 1834) was in a car accident with a person that fled the scene. The claimant injury lawyer was able to prove the fleeing driver was 50% at fault for the accident and the Insurance Corporation of British…

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ICBC Injury Claim Against Dead Driver of a Stolen Vehicle- Is there Compensation?

I am a personal injury lawyer in Vancouver and was in court chambers this week on an interesting matter.  The courthouse was probably the busiest I have every seen with almost 90 court applications scheduled to be heard by one master of our Supreme Court. The court clerk did an amazing job of coordinating the…

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ICBC Not Required to Pay Car Accident Benefits for Amercian Insured-Power of Attorney and Undertaking

This case,Moldovan v. ICBC, started as an injury claim for ICBC Part 7 accident benefits(or “no fault benefits”) arising out of a motor vehicle accident which occurred in Coquitlam, British Columbia. I have been a personal injury lawyer in Vancouver representing injury claimants against ICBC since 1995 and can say this case is yet another example of the…

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ICBC Pays for all lawyers appeal to Top Court in Personal Injury Case

In this puzzling  ICBC  top appeal on an award for income loss (Laxdal v. Robbins, BCCA) the injury claimant was involved in a four car motor vehicle accident on Bowen Road near the intersection of Pryde Avenue in Nanaimo, B.C.  Fault for the accident was admitted but at issue was whether the claimant suffered any injuries in the accident and, if so,…

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Total Disability Defined for Personal Injury Lawyers and Claimants in Britsh Columbia

Personal injury lawyers  in British Columbia work  for many injury claimants that have been denied disability benefits by the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, ICBC,  or other insurance companies on the grounds that their injuries are not totally disabling. Often the injury claimant is physically able to do a task but is advised not to engage in the activity. This…

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