In this proposed class action against five corporate defendants, two of the defendants, Teva Canada Limited (Teva) and Sandoz Canada Incorporated (Sandoz), seek an order dismissing the action against them on a summary trial prior to a certification hearing....
This is an assessment of costs following settlement of a claim by the plaintiff arising out of injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle accident on February 10, 2009....
On April 6, 2009, the plaintiff, Helen Tchir, who was then 60 years old, was a sideways sitting passenger on a transit bus (the bus) driven by the defendant, Andre Tougas, on Lonsdale Avenue in North Vancouver. Mr. Tougas operated the bus as an employee of the defendants Coast Mountain Bus Company Ltd. and South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority (collectively, together with Mr. Tougas, now called the Transit Defendants)....
On September 24, 2007 Ms. Staaf was driving a motor vehicle in an easterly direction on the Georgia Viaduct in Vancouver when she says the vehicle she was driving was hit by a motor vehicle negligently driven by a person unknown to her. As a result of being hit and as a result of taking evasive action, the vehicle driven by Ms. Staaf went out of control, resulting in a collision between the vehicle and the barriers on either side of the Georgia Viaduct....
The plaintiff, Tara Dunne brings these actions to recover damages she says result from the negligence of the respective defendants in two separate motor-vehicle accidents....
The plaintiff, Mark Hutchinson, was a passenger on a bus driven by the defendant, Clifford Dyck. The other defendants own and operate the bus company. The bus went over a depression or dip in the road. The plaintiff was ejected upwards from his seat and hit the seat on the way down. He was subsequently diagnosed with a T12-L1 flexion distraction burst injury. Liability and damages are in issue. The claim against the third party City of Surrey was discontinued prior to the commencement of this trial.The AccidentThe Plaintiff...
This is a damages assessment in a motor vehicle accident case. Liability is admitted. There are no factual disputes or issues of credibility, and no allegations of exaggeration, malingering, or failure to mitigate. Apart from reasonably minor disagreements about the amount of non-pecuniary damages, special damages, and the cost of future care, the only issue in this case is whether the plaintiff is entitled to compensation for the loss of future income earning capacity.The Accident...
Amy Kirkham seeks damages for personal injuries she suffered in a car accident on January 5, 2011. She claims that she injured her neck, shoulders, upper back, and left hip in the accident, and that she now suffers from myofascial pain syndrome, cervical facet arthropathy, left hip girdle pain, and chronic pain syndrome, all of which has disabled her from competing as a professional triathlete and delayed her PhD studies by one year. She seeks compensation for her personal injuries and the associated pain and suffering, past loss of income, future loss of income, cost of future care, special damages, and costs....
These are rulings with respect to costs in these two matters, consequential to the decision I rendered January 9, 2014. That decision is indexed as Sikora v. Brown, 2014 BCSC 30....
On September 13, 2008, in Port Alberni, B.C. the plaintiff, Shawn Best, was rear-ended by a van while he was stopped on his motorcycle, waiting for the vehicle ahead of him to turn left. April Thomas was the driver of the van. She did not have a valid drivers licence. Joan Thomas, April Thomass grandmother, owned the van. The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) is named as a third party....