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 →Why thorough care is important to avoid ICBC unfairness: Part 3
Help your recovery and avoid handing ICBC a mental health care “magic pill” by being vigilant about your mental health and following through with whatever care is prescribed.
Read More →When is it time to return to work?
Instead of asking your doctor to take you off work, beg your doctor’s permission to try to continue working, asking for medication to help deal with your muscle spasms and pain.
Read More →Examination for discovery has many topics on the table
Bright lights? Scowling, angry inquisition? Water boarding? But truly, there’s nothing “objectively” stressful about the event. You are “just” required to be honestly and forthright responding to questions about a subject matter about which you have supreme expertise: you! But
Read More →Patience necessary to settle ICBC claims
How long does it take for a motor vehicle accident claim to wind its way through the Courts and why? This is the second time I am pulling from a list of questions provided to me by an expert witness
Read More →Mediation of your ICBC claim
I joined thousands of other parents of school aged children, breathing a huge sigh of relief on hearing the news that the BCTF and the Provincial Government had reached a tentative agreement. They had seemed way too far apart for
Read More →Taking it to trial can be risky
A recent court decision illustrates the risk that a trial represents, particularly a jury trial, and the powerful incentive that something called a “formal offer” can be to settle a case instead of going to trial. It is a decision
Read More →Don’t be pressured into settling a personal injury lawsuit
You cannot unscramble an egg. Nor can you “un–settle” a personal injury claim. I can’t tell you how many people have expressed regret about settling a claim prematurely. They typically lament about how young and misinformed they had been, accepting
Read More →Understanding lawsuit legal costs
I run my draft columns by my highly educated father who happens also to be very intelligent. I say “happens also” because I don’t equate levels of education with intelligence. He couldn’t understand what I was saying my first draft
Read More →Personal injury case DMEs all about damage control
With a legal practice dedicated to a very narrow area of law, I often feel like a broken record when I am giving advice to my clients. The same issues and procedures come up again and again and again because
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