Journaling pre-crash condition: A sequel
Journal not only your pre-crash condition, but the trend of your condition. Medical specialists need that to predict how you should have been had the crash not occurred.
Read More →It can be critical to journal how you were before a collision
If you had any symptoms before a collision, it is important to journal that while your memory is still fresh, and before you get used to your "new normal." If you don't, you will have difficulty giving a credible comparison.
Read More →Winter is Coming: Legal Advice for Slip and Falls
When should you get legal advice about a slip and fall injury? Before it happens. Merely showing that you slipped and fell is not enough to establish a legal claim.
Read More →The truth will set you free?
Being honest does not necessarily mean that what you say is true.
Read More →Social media privacy settings have no guarantee in court
In the old days it was the family photo album. And if ICBC wanted video footage they had to send a creepy “investigator” with a video camera. Now there are smart phones, Facebook, Instagram and whatever else that captures and
Read More →It isn’t easy to be a reliable witness
An ATV and dirt bike collide at a blind corner on a winding dirt road. Mr. Bye, the biker, suffers injuries and losses assessed at over three million dollars. The stakes are high in the assessment of “who’s at fault?”
Read More →Examination for discovery warnings
For more significant injuries, with correspondingly significant losses, there is a legal obligation that puts injured victims on the defensive. It’s called “mitigation.”An injured victim has a legal obligation to take all reasonable measures to keep their losses to a
Read More →ICBC Claims require evidence of pre-car crash health
“You want me to sit down and make notes to “journal” how I was before the crash?” Yes, I do. As soon as possible. Before your memory fades, because ICBC claims require evidence. “But what does that have to do
Read More →Preserve car crash evidence in five steps
I’ve written, before, that you should take photographs and get witness information to preserve car crash evidence at the scene. (You’ve been in a crash… What now?) But isn’t that obvious? Why would you need a legal columnist to give
Read More →Preserving the evidence
This is the fourth and last episode of a series. I started with a list of priorities for what to do at the scene of a crash. I promised a similar list for what to do after you leave the
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