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.




Hajikolai v. Lewis

            This action arises out of a motor vehicle accident that occurred February 8, 2011 (the "2011 accident").  The plaintiff, Ramezan Ali Salehi Hajikolai, was rear-ended by a vehicle driven by the defendant Daniel Lewis with the permission of the vehicle's owner, the defendant Chanel Ann Lewis....

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Villing v. Husseni

             THE COURT:  These reasons for judgment are being presented orally, and in the event a transcript of the reasons is ordered, I am reserving without limitation my right to edit same, not only as to matters of grammar and syntax but also where I judge it necessary or desirable to elaborate upon or amplify what I am about to say.  Needless to say nothing will change the result....

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Hendry v. Ellis

             THE COURT:  Firstly, if these reasons are published, as usual I reserve the right to edit and expand upon these reasons for clarification and otherwise if necessary, however, if it is published the decision will not change in any way as a result of the published reasons....

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Tenhunen v. Tenhunen

            This action, in which damages were claimed for breach of duties under the Occupiers Liability Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 337, resulted in an equal division of liability between plaintiff and defendant, with the plaintiff’s damages assessed at $250,182.38 before apportionment for contributory negligence. The reasons for these results can be found at 2015 BCSC 26....

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Chow v. Slawter

            On April 14, 2015, the plaintiff settled her motor vehicle accident claim for $115,492.03 in damages, plus taxable costs and disbursements. Taxable costs and disbursements were to be agreed, or assessed. As an agreement could not be reached, this is the formal assessment....

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Ishii v. Wong

            Brandon Ishii claims for damages he alleges he sustained in two motor vehicle accidents. The first motor vehicle accident occurred on August 24, 2010, when Mr. Ishii’s motorcycle collided with a vehicle driven by the defendant Lung Wong at the intersection of North Road and Cameron Street in Coquitlam, B.C. (the “2010 accident”). Ms. Wong was turning left at the time. Ms. Wong denies liability for the accident....

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White v. Wang

             THE COURT:  The plaintiff, Jessica White, was injured in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on October 3, 2009. The defendants admitted their liability. On December 22, 2014, following a seven‑day trial, I awarded the plaintiff damages of $129,998.49, for the losses she suffered or will suffer due to the accident. The trial judgment is indexed at 2014 BCSC 2416....

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Monahan v. Yang

            THE COURT:  The defendants have brought this application to compel the plaintiff to attend a medical examination on June 9, 2015, at the offices of Dr. Fadi Tarazi in Burnaby, British Columbia.  The plaintiff is opposed to this application because the plaintiff has already attended a medical examination at the request of the defendants with a neurologist, Dr. Alexander Moll.  The plaintiff argues that Dr. Moll has already given an opinion on all of the plaintiff's injuries.BACKGROUND...

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Provencher v. St. Pauls Hospital

            The plaintiff, Dennis Provencher, seeks damages in relation to an incident that occurred in the early morning hours of March 17, 2006. The plaintiff alleges that he was assaulted by the defendant, Paul Eigeldinger, in the emergency room area at St. Paul’s Hospital (the “Incident”). Mr. Eigeldinger is employed as a security guard by Paladin Security Group Ltd. (“Paladin”)....

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Karlsson v. Noormohamed

            The plaintiff, Raija Karlsson, was injured in a motor vehicle accident on September 23, 2011 (the “Accident”). The defendants have admitted liability; only damages are in issue....

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Dickenson v. Passero

            This is an assessment of damages for injuries sustained by Ms. Dickenson in a motor vehicle accident in Kamloops on May 27, 2010. She was stopped at an intersection, waiting to turn left from Columbia Street onto Second Avenue, when she saw the defendant's vehicle approaching quickly from behind. She braced herself with her arms against the steering wheel, and her legs against the floor and brake pedal. The defendant failed to stop her vehicle in time and the resulting collision caused approximately $10,000 damage to the plaintiff's Hyundai Tiburon, and caused soft tissue injuries to her neck, shoulders and back, and a mild psychological injury. Liability is admitted....

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Piccioni v. Carriere

             THE COURT:  The plaintiff applies for an order that a settlement agreement signed by her mother as her guardian and the defendant Greyhound is void and of no force or effect, because it was never approved or consented to by the Public Guardian and Trustee.  The Public Guardian and Trustee is required to review and consent to such settlements pursuant to s. 40 of the Infants Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 223....

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