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.




Staaf v. Insurance Company of British Columbia

             At the request of the Defendants, Synaptic Analysis Consulting Group (Darrin Richards) prepared a February 3, 2014 opinion relating to an accident reconstruction of the collision alleged by Ms. Staaf and, in particular, to analyze the speed of the vehicle and whether another vehicle could have impacted her vehicle in the area of the markings around the gas cap.  In his opinion, Mr. Richards came to the following conclusions:(a)        The 1994 Pontiac Firebird [of Ms. Staaf] rotated in a counterclockwise yaw before sustaining a frontal impact with the barrier on the north side of the Georgia Viaduct.(b)        The Pontiac continued to rotate counterclockwise after this initial impact and sustained a subsequent impact to its right rear corner.  This subsequent impact also occurred with the barrier on the north side of the Georgia Viaduct.(c)        The initial speed of Ms. Staaf s Pontiac Firebird was likely 66‑72 km/h.(d)        The scuff and dent to the left quarter panel of the Pontiac Firebird were likely the result of a contact with a protruding surface.  The damage is not consistent with having resulted from contact with the concrete barriers on the Georgia Viaduct.  If the scuff and dent were the result of vehicle contact, the direction of motion of the vehicles would have to be parallel or nearly parallel.  It is unclear whether the scuffs and dent are related to the subject incident....

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Sandhu v. Wilk

             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....

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Player v. Janssen-Ortho Inc.

             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....

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Gonzalez v. Workers’ Compensation Board (New Work Safe) of British Columbia

             THE COURT:  In this application, the defendants, Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia, seek orders that the notice of civil claim be struck out and the claim dismissed; a declaration that the plaintiff has habitually, persistently, and without reasonable grounds instituted vexatious legal proceedings in the Supreme Court against the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia and must not bring a legal proceeding in the Supreme Court of British Columbia or the Provincial Court of British Columbia without leave of the court pursuant to s. 18 of the Supreme Court Act, RSBC 1996, c 443; an order that the staff of the registries of the Supreme and Provincial Courts are authorized to discard any documents that the plaintiff attempts to file in contravention of this order; an order dispensing with approval of the plaintiff to the form of this order; and costs....

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Tchir v. South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority

             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”)....

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Hutchinson v. Dyck

             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...

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Dunne v. Sharma

             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....

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Staaf v. Insurance Company of British Columbia

             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....

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MacDonald v. Kemp

             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...

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Kirkham v. Richardson

             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....

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D.M. v. R.L.

             The plaintiff, D.M., seeks damages against the estate of her deceased step-father, J.W., and against her mother, I.M., arising from their treatment of her when she was a child....

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Sikora v. Brown

             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....

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