Catastrophic injuries are severe damage or impairments to your body, bones, person, or life. Go out. Support the injured. Keep insurers accountable. Fight for your rights. Lower car insurance costs. And, let’s limit ICBC’s unjust and unfair monopoly.

This is the truth of no-fault insurance. The tragic reality. The sad state of ICBC’s monopoly.

WHY CHANGE YOUR ICBC INJURY LAWYER:

1. The lawyer is not responsive to their client’s phone calls and/or emails.

2. The lawyer takes too long to conclude an injured victim’s file whether settlement or trial.

3. The lawyer is not willing to go to Trial and/or is inexperienced in it.

4. The lawyer undervalues an injured victim’s claim (e.g. asking the client to settle for much less than deserved).

"The Court’s reference to awarding the plaintiff their “entire annual income for one or more years” has, unfortunately, sometimes been read as if it allows a court to arbitrarily assign an amount for the plaintiff’s loss. At trial, the defendant’s suggestion that an award of a year or two years’ salary would be appropriate appears to me to stem from a misunderstanding of Pallos. While a court can quantify the plaintiff’s damages for loss of future earning capacity in that way, it is required to carefully consider the evidence, and come to a fair assessment of the plaintiff’s loss."

On May 1, 2021, as you may know, ICBC’s new insurance regime came into force and effect. Concurrently, you may have received a $250.00 cheque in the mail and a 5%-15% reduction in your insurance costs.

A bribe, some may suggest.

Unsurprisingly, society tends to permit self-interest to dictate decisions. One example of this is no-fault. We as BC residents/citizens have had opportunities to fight against no-fault. However, most of BC was enticed, perhaps blinded, by the allure of lower insurance costs. As such, no-fault took force and effect.

For 3 individuals, the costs of no-fault have been crippling. These are their stories. This is the ugly truth of no-fault.

In today’s blog, we discuss the recent case of Vespaziani v Lau, 2021 BCSC 1224, one of the first decisions to consider ICBC’s new, likely unconstitutional, three expert limit. Rather than bothering you with superfluous commentary, we rely heavily on the Trial Judges comments.

The reason for the adjournment can therefore be attributed to the defendants’ choice to delay conducting their examination for discovery of the plaintiff until February 25, 2021, about two months prior to the trial date, leaving very little time for follow-up document discovery. A trial date set for a case should not be adjourned simply because one side chooses to unduly delay discovery procedures, thereby limiting the time available for further discovery procedures.

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“It’s going to end up costing me out of pocket just to get therapy. I reached out to a concussion specialist. The first sessions cost $300. ICBC will only cover $200,” he said. “If there was a cash settlement on the side, out of that I could make up the shortcomings of all these things on the side.” - the New Westminster Record

$65,000 for Loss of Housekeeping!

As indicated above, the defendant concedes, and I agree, that he was negligent in backing his van blindly out of the garage, and up the driveway, causing the accident that injured the plaintiff.

Unfortunately, this strategy of contesting a plaintiff’s claim, and forcing a plaintiff to proceed to trial, in an effective game of chicken, is not confined to this case: this judge alone has presided over at least one other recent trial with minimal evidence, minimal cross-examination, and minimal argument, presented by the provincial automobile insurer qua defendant.