An All Inclusive Offer to Settle Can Now Attract Double Costs

British Columbia Personal Injury Law Blog, How Much Money Will I Get?

In this offer to settle a personal injury case Judge Funt has done away with the old rule against all-inclusive offers to settle. That is to say the Judge entertained an $250,000 all-inclusive  pre-trial offer of the defendant when awarding double costs to the defendant, changing the law and overturning our Court of Appeal in Helm v. Pattie(1998),…

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ICBC Injury Claimant to Pay Double Costs after Rejecting $275,000.00 Offer to Settle

British Columbia Personal Injury Law Blog, ICBC Settlement Amounts, ICBC Settlements, Motor Vehicle Accidents

The personal injury award following a 25 day trial in this ICBC gets double costs case(Minhas v. Sartor,2014 BCSC 47) was $76,653.00, much less than the $3 million sought by the claimant and the $275,000 offered by ICBC before trial.  The judge, in one of the first times in BC legal history, has awarded ICBC…

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Reasonable Settlement Offer not Accepted but Double Costs Unfair to Personal Injury Claimant

British Columbia Personal Injury Law Blog, ICBC Settlement Amounts, ICBC Settlements

The claimant in this reasonable offer personal injury case(Gulbrandsen v. Mohr,2013 BCSC 1481) was a passenger in a car accident.  The Judge accepted the claimant was injured in the accident awarding her $28,000.0  in damages, but  found that she was not a trustworthy witness. Her evidence about lost time at work was vague and she had…

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