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COVID-19 Business Negligence Claims

COVID-19 LawBy Renn Holness April 4, 2020

Can workers or customers sue business owners for contracting the coronavirus? The answer is yes if they are negligent. Essential service businesses, however, are not liable for infecting a person during the pandemic unless grossly negligent. Normal negligence for spreading COVID-19 does not apply to essential businesses. Business liability for covid-19 is dependent on the…

$120,000 Award for Police Assault Dismissed in Last Injury Case of 2018

British Columbia Personal Injury Law BlogBy Renn Holness January 2, 2019

When starting a personal injury lawsuit against the police it is important to consider giving notice to the municipality employing the officers. This $120,000 injury case was dimissed because the claimant failed to give the municipality notice of the claim within two months.(Lapshinoff v. Wray,2018 BCSC 2315). Section 286 of the Local Government Act, currently reiterated as s. 736…