I have been a personal injury lawyer in Vancouver since 1995 and have noticed that there are a lot of companies trying to give advice about how you should claim with ICBC or other insurance companies if you have been injured. Some of these companies are not law firms and are not licenced to practice law in British…
Despite the ICBC statement the judge concluded that the claimant probably blacked out or was rendered unconscious for a fraction of a second or mere seconds before finding himself straddling his bike or beside his bike. The judge went on to find that, ” that it is more likely than not that the plaintiff did suffer an extremely mild traumatic 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…
Bortnik v. Gutierrez, 2010 BCSC 856 June 6th, 2011 update- This case illustrates how important it is for injury claimants to avoid any suggestion that they are exaggerating their injuries and to date the case has not been overturned. The car accident occurred when the claimant was driving and his vehicle was hit in the…