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Court Awards $50,000 For Pain and Suffering For Soft Tissue Injury

On February 21, 2007, the Plaintiff was riding in the front passenger seat of a vehicle driven by her friend, the Defendant. As the Defendant proceeded through an intersection, a van broadsided the driver’s side door of her vehicle. The impact was reasonably severe and caused significant damage to the left side of the Defendant’s vehicle. Although the Plaintiff was wearing her seatbelt, she claimed that the force of the collision caused the right side of her body to strike the interior of the Defendant’s vehicle.

February 17, 2012

Effect of Video Surveillance on Assessment of Damages

On December 23, 2011, the BC Supreme Court released a decision on the use of video surveillance evidence in a motor vehicle accident case. In WILKINSON V. WHITLOCK, 2011 BCSC 1781 the Plaintiff was injured in a 2007 motor vehicle accident in Vernon, BC. The Defendant was found completely at fault after it was determined that she drove through a red light and collided with the Plaintiff’s vehicle. As a result of the collision, the Plaintiff claimed that she suffered an injury to her back. During the trial, the Plaintiff testified about her symptoms.

February 17, 2012

Court Considers Criteria For Awarding “Scale C” Costs

Reasons for judgment on the issue of costs relating to the trial decision of X. V. Y., 2011 BCSC 944, were released on January 13, 2012 (reported at 2012 BCSC 37). The trial decision of X. V. Y., which dealt with a motor vehicle accident involving a police officer responding to an emergency call, was the subject of a past blog entry on contributory negligence and liability, available here.

February 17, 2012

Court of Appeal Finds Massage Therapy a Mandatory Part VII Benefit

In the important decision RAGUIN V. INSURANCE CORPORATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 2011 BCCA 482(“RAGUIN”), released November 29, 2011, the Court of Appeal considered the Plaintiffs’ claim that ICBC had an obligation to pay for massage therapy benefits under Part 7 of the INSURANCE (VEHICLE) REGULATION(the “REGULATION”).

December 5, 2011

Plaintiff’s Claim Struck For Failure to Prove Liability of Unidentified Driver

On November 9, 2011, the Honourable Mr. Justice Williams of the British Columbia Supreme Court delivered his judgment in PAGUIO V. FRASER, 2011 BCSC 1519.

The trial was a result of an action filed by Cesar Paguio, to establish liability for the serious head injury he suffered in an auto accident on February 28, 2010. At the time of the accident, Mr. Paguio was driving his motor scooter in the right hand lane along Knight Street, in Richmond. He suddenly crossed into the left lane occupied by a Volkswagen, operated by Mr. Fraser, striking Fraser’s vehicle in the area of the right front wheel well and tire.

November 25, 2011

Damages Not Reduced Based on a Lack of Doctor Visits

The British Columbia Supreme Court recently held that the number of visits to a doctor’s office does not determine the value of the Plaintiff’s personal injury claim. In TARZWELL V. EWASHINA, the Plaintiff was injured in a motor vehicle collision in 2007 and suffered soft tissue injuries to the lower back and trapezius muscle. After she was injured, the Plaintiff decided not to burden the medical system with unnecessary visits to physicians who would give her little or no further advice other than what she had already received and followed.

November 22, 2011

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Tag: motor vehicle accident

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Court Awards $50,000 For Pain and Suffering For Soft Tissue Injury

Effect of Video Surveillance on Assessment of Damages

Court Considers Criteria For Awarding “Scale C” Costs

Court of Appeal Finds Massage Therapy a Mandatory Part VII Benefit

Plaintiff’s Claim Struck For Failure to Prove Liability of Unidentified Driver

Damages Not Reduced Based on a Lack of Doctor Visits

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