The parties were granted leave to make additional submissions on the impact of the PharmaCare program on damages for future medication costs. In separate reasons, judgment was varied in paras. 324 and 325 so that damages for future medication costs are not reduced to account for the existence of PharmaCare coverage....
An issue has arisen with respect to the costs to be awarded following judgment in this action. Judgment was handed down August 15, 2011, 2011 BCSC 1108, although an order flowing from the judgment has not yet been entered....
There are three actions, brought on behalf of three infant plaintiffs, all arising out of a motor vehicle accident. Arshdeep Singh Sidhu, the most seriously injured of the plaintiffs, claims damages against his parents Balwinder Kaur Sidhu and Rajvinder Singh Sidhu, the driver and owner, respectively, of the vehicle in which he rode as a passenger; against Mr. Hiebert, the driver of the vehicle that collided with his parents vehicle; and against Mr. Rattan, who is alleged to have hosted a party at which Mr. Hiebert became drunk just before the accident....
On January 22, 2003, a vehicle operated by the defendant, Jamin Lee, struck the plaintiff, Selina Meghji, while she was walking across the intersection of Blanshard Street and Cloverdale Avenue in Victoria, B.C....
There are three applications to be decided: the first is the plaintiffs application to add Edward Bates as a defendant and to amend the statement of claim to incorporate allegations against Mr. Bates. The second is the defendants summary trial application, heard pursuant to Rule 9-7, in which the defendants seeks a dismissal of portions of the plaintiffs claims on the ground that they are barred by operation of the Limitation Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 266. The third is the defendants application, pursuant to Rule 9-5(1)(a), to strike portions of the plaintiffs statement of claim as disclosing no cause of action....
This application concerns costs following the trial of this matter in which I ordered that the Thomas defendants pay damages to the plaintiff and that the action against the defendant Horth be dismissed. The plaintiffs damages exceeded an offer to settle made by the Thomas defendants. Neither the plaintiff nor the defendant Horth had delivered a formal offer to settle....