Welcome to the Acheson Sweeney Foley Sahota personal injury case law database.

Our firm has collected and organized a number of personal injury court decisions in a publicly-accessible database, for use as a resource by law students, other lawyers and firms, as well as the general public. This database will include some of our firm’s results, as well as results from many other lawyers. For information about results from this firm only, please click here.

The British Columbia Supreme Court and the British Columbia Court of Appeal are the sources for all of the cases in this database; these cases are not official versions of the material produced, and were not made in affiliation with or the endorsement of the British Columbia Superior Courts.




Fuchser v. Wilson

             On December 7, 2008, the plaintiff was a passenger in a right-hand drive Nissan Skyline driven by her then partner, Christopher Wilson. She was sitting in the left-hand front seat....

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Pearlman v. Critchley

           The defendants American Commerce Insurance Company (ACIC), Owen Bird Law Corporation (OBLC) and Scott Stephens have two applications. They apply for summary judgment. Specifically, they ask the Court to strike Mr. Pearlman’s writ of summons and statement of claim and dismiss his action against them pursuant to Rules 9-5 and 9-6 of the Rules of Court. They also apply for a vexatious litigant order that Mr. Pearlman be enjoined from commencing any further legal proceedings in this court without first obtaining leave of a Justice under s.18 of the Supreme Court Act....

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Johel v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia

             The parties seek a determination of liability in relation to a motor vehicle collision for which the plaintiff claims damages for personal injury. The parties agree that the issue is suitable for resolution by summary trial....

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Araki v. Guitard

             In this action, the plaintiff seeks to recover damages which she says resulted from a motor vehicle collision that occurred on February 21, 2007. Liability is admitted by the defendants. The sole issue is the determination of damages.Background...

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Kellar v. South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority

             The issue of liability for the injuries suffered by the plaintiff when she fell on April 1, 2008, is to be decided. Counsel agree that if there is liability, all the defendants are liable except for MVT Canadian Bus, Inc., against which the action was discontinued before trial....

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Garth A. Wright Law Corporation v. ICBC

             If during negotiations a party’s insurer requests photocopies of documents from the other party, may the latter party’s counsel use the Legal Profession Act[1] (“the LPA”) to pursue payment from the insurer? BACKGROUND...

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HMTQ v. Beacon Community Services Society

             This is an application by the defendants, Beacon Community Services Society and Rickey Gordon Fonger, to strike a claim by the plaintiff, Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia. The Province is seeking to recover health care costs from the defendant insurers. The question is whether the Province is out of time....

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Everett v. Solvason

             The plaintiff, Jacob Everett, claims damages for personal injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident which occurred on September 3, 2009. At the time of the accident, the plaintiff was 40 years of age, unemployed and living on his own in a home in Surrey, B.C. with his mother and step-father. Liability is not in issue....

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Edwards v. Ganzer

             The parties in this personal action have each brought applications before the court for determination....

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Rutter v. Allen

             Mr. Rutter sues for damages arising from a four-vehicle accident that occurred on December 15, 2006. At approximately 11:45 a.m., Mr. Rutter was returning to his home in Coquitlam from work in Langley. He was travelling westbound on the Trans-Canada Highway on the Johnston Hill, approaching the Port Mann Bridge. The traffic was quite heavy....

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Abdalle v. British Columbia (Public Safety and Solicitor General)

             This action is for damages for injuries the plaintiff Ismail Abdalle received in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on May 8, 2007. His vehicle was struck while proceeding through the intersection of Westminster Highway and Garden City Road in Richmond by the vehicle driven by Constable Claudio Maurizio, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Constable Maurizio was on duty at the time of the collision....

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Zawislak v. Karbovanec

             THE COURT:  Janice Zawislak suffered injuries in a motor vehicle accident on January 14, 2009. Liability is not in issue and the defendants admit that Ms. Zawislak was injured in the accident. The defendants agree with the past wage loss being claimed; however, they submit that Ms. Zawislak is exaggerating the nature, extent and duration of the injuries she suffered in the motor vehicle accident....

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