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Dean Johnson was involved in two motor vehicle accidents, one on December 17, 2007, and the other on June 15, 2008. Liability has been admitted by the defendants in both actions. The only issue is what amount of damages Mr. Johnson is entitled to....
This action arises from a motor vehicle accident in which the plaintiff, Ms. Ahla Rezaei, was injured. The accident occurred on March 20, 2009 at the intersection of Imperial Street and Waverly Avenue in Burnaby, British Columbia (the Accident). Liability for the Accident was admitted by the defendants. The trial occupied three days. The plaintiff called eight witnesses, four of whom were experts. The defendants called no evidence....
The defendant, Joseph Catalano, worked for the plaintiff Teck Cominco Metals Ltd., most recently as a crane operator, from 1977 until February 6, 2003. Teck Cominco Metals Ltd. changed its name to Teck Metals Ltd. on June 1, 2009. I will refer to this plaintiff as Teck Metals....
This action arises out of a motor vehicle collision that occurred on July 2, 2007 on a 104th Avenue, in Surrey....
THE COURT: On July 2, 2008, at about 8:30 in the morning, a collision occurred on the Trans-Canada Highway at a location known as Kault Hill near Salmon Arm between a Toyota Camry driven by James Francis Tod and a Dodge pickup truck driven by Colin James Brook. Mr. Tod was killed in the collision. The plaintiff was a passenger in the Dodge pickup driven by her husband. In response to a notice to admit delivered by the plaintiff to the defendant, Mona Ruth Tod, as executor of the estate of the late Mr. Tod and to the defendant, Kora Goodrick, both those defendants admit that the accident occurred as a result of one or both of their negligence and that they are, in the language of the notice to admit, individually or jointly and severally 100 percent liable for the injuries and loss suffered by the plaintiff as a result of the accident. By consent, the action has been dismissed against Mr. Brook and he has been removed from the style of cause. The trial of liability as between the remaining defendants was severed from the damage claim with that assessment to be addressed at a later date. The hearing this week has been conducted for the purpose of determining the respective degrees of fault of the defendants....
Xun Yi (Vic) Yang was struck and injured by a vehicle while he was crossing Bridgeport Road in Richmond, B.C. as a pedestrian on December 6, 2007. Mr. Yang was using a marked, signalized crosswalk at the time. The driver of the vehicle was the defendant Bill Chan....
On December 8, 2010, the plaintiff was driving on Nordel Way in Delta when the vehicle he was driving collided with a light standard. Although the direction in which he was travelling would most accurately be described as north-easterly, for the sake of convenience, and because it will make no difference to the narrative, in these Reasons I shall refer to Nordel Way as a north-south street and 84th Avenue as an east-west avenue. Mr. Akbari was north-bound on Nordel Way, heading out of Delta towards Surrey....
In the fall of 2008 Mr. Kulak went on vacation to Arizona. Before leaving B.C., he applied for and believed that he had purchased travel insurance from Reliable. The insurance was intended to indemnify him for medical expenses while he was away. In November 2008, Mr. Kulak was injured when the bicycle he was riding collided with a car. He was hospitalized and incurred medical expenses totaling $167,140 for treatment of his injuries. That sum includes the $18,000 USD cost of his medi‑vac flight from Arizona to B.C. Those expenses are properly within the scope of indemnity offered by Reliables policy. Reliable has refused to honor the insurance policy, citing an error in Mr. Kulaks application. That error, Reliable says, was Mr. Kulaks misrepresentation of a fact that was material to the risk insured by the policy. Reliable says that the misrepresentation rendered the insurance policy voidable....
On January 13, 2009, the plaintiff, Christel Lee Warner, was driving her car west on Columbia Street in Kamloops, British Columbia. At or near the intersection of Columbia Street and 6th Avenue, a small truck driven by the defendant, Stephen Ward Cousins, and owned by the corporate defendant, turned left in front of her causing her to collide with the passengers side of the truck. Upon impact, the airbags in the plaintiffs vehicle deployed. The plaintiff was wearing a seatbelt, but she suffered injuries....
The plaintiff, Jeremy Cummings, seeks an award of damages for injuries suffered by him in a motor vehicle collision that occurred on September 8, 2008. His damage claims fall into several categories....
The 31-year-old plaintiff, Leah Christine Stewart, seeks damages from the defendants, Daniel Dueck and Sumas Transport Inc., arising from a motor vehicle accident that occurred on June 2, 2010, at the intersection of 176th Street and 16th Avenue in Surrey, British Columbia (the Intersection)....
These are proceedings pursuant to Rule 9-4 of the Supreme Court Rules, considering points of law that arise from the pleadings. The parties consent to proceeding in this manner....