Covid-19 and income loss claims
What happens to their income loss during the layoff? Will ICBC still have to pay 50% of their full time income over that period of time?
Read More →Working through your symptoms
She managed to work around her symptoms in the four years leading up to the trial. Did that mean she was not entitled to compensation for possible future losses?
Read More →Calculating future losses
Losses from an injury can extend many years into the future. It is always a challenge to gaze into the crystal ball and predict what those losses will be.
Read More →Make your bed with care
“You’ve made your bed” is a saying fitting of some injury victims who have made it next to impossible to achieve justice. According to one internet source, the saying first appeared in a late 1500s Middle French proverb “comme on
Read More →Stoically working through pain? Compensation for a “loss of capacity” to earn income in the future.
“As a matter of ordinary human experience and common sense, a person’s ability to tolerate chronic pain diminishes with age”. Those are the words of Madam Justice Griffin in her decision of Davidge v. Fairholm, 2014 BCSC 1948. She was
Read More →Volunteering as therapy
Volunteers: Thank you! To the multitude of volunteers who made the recent Apple Triathlon possible: Thank you! I was struck by your generosity. You were there at every twist and turn in the route, keeping us on track and cheering
Read More →Unreported income in a personal injury claim
Unreported income is a reality “If you pay cash, I won’t have to charge you the tax”. I bought a used walker for my mother a few weeks back. All I had was plastic. The price was $90.00, so I
Read More →Shocking ICBC claim guideline
I’ve given the same ICBC claim advice over and over, consultation after consultation, for years. I have joked about creating a series of videos so that I could just press “play”. Perhaps that’s not such a bad idea! Injured victims
Read More →ICBC claim advice – Live your lIfe [Part 1]
I walk a fine line when giving ICBC claim advice in this public forum. On the one hand, there is important advice that absolutely must be shared to injured victims to avoid being taken advantage of by ICBC. On the
Read More →Pretend you won’t be compensated to mitigate your losses
Legal column advising car crash victims to continue working as if they expect they will not be compensated instead of accumulating lost wages
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