Welcome to the Acheson Sweeney Foley Sahota personal injury case law database.

Our firm has collected and organized a number of personal injury court decisions in a publicly-accessible database, for use as a resource by law students, other lawyers and firms, as well as the general public. This database will include some of our firm’s results, as well as results from many other lawyers. For information about results from this firm only, please click here.

The British Columbia Supreme Court and the British Columbia Court of Appeal are the sources for all of the cases in this database; these cases are not official versions of the material produced, and were not made in affiliation with or the endorsement of the British Columbia Superior Courts.




Thompson v. Choi

             The plaintiff is a 44-year-old journeyman sheet-metal worker. At the time of the November 10, 2008 accident that occasioned the plaintiff’s claim for injuries, he lived in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. He now lives in Kamloops. He is married, and has two teenaged children from a former marriage.       1          The Accident...

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Lozinski v. Maple Ridge (District)

             This action arises from a car accident that occurred at approximately noon on August 15, 2011, at the intersection of Pitt River Road and Mary Hill Road, in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Both liability and damages are in issue but, on the second day of trial, I ordered that liability be tried and determined first. This judgment relates to liability only....

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Ackley v. Audette

             Late in the evening on June 8, 2010, the defendant, Marc Audette, after finishing work, drove to a Subway restaurant located in a shopping plaza in Coquitlam, B.C. to buy a sandwich. As he got out of his car and walked towards the entrance to the restaurant, he was accosted by the plaintiff, Joel Ackley, who was hanging around outside with some friends....

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Derksen v. Nicholson

             This claim for damages arises out of two motor vehicle accidents.  The first occurred on October 11, 2010, while the second happened on May 28, 2013.  In both of these accidents, the plaintiff was a driver whose vehicle was struck from behind: the first time with light to moderate force; the second time with very little force....

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Chamberlin v. Canadian Physiotherapy Association

             The plaintiff claims she was injured when she participated in a continuing education course that was organized and administered by the defendant, the Canadian Physiotherapy Association (the “Course” and the “CPA”)....

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Bellaisac v. Mara

             The plaintiff is an uncomplicated man who enjoys life’s simple pleasures, including those of hard physical labour....

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Middleton v. Heerlein

             In two applications argued on behalf of two insureds, Progressive Max Insurance Company (“Progressive”), an insurer carrying on business in the United States, seeks to revisit a subrogation issue it litigated unsuccessfully in Matilda v. MacLeod, 2000 BCCA 1....

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Sequeira v. Higgins

             This is an action for damages arising out of a motor vehicle accident on May 5, 2012 at the intersection of Inverness Street and West 41st Avenue in Vancouver.  The negligence of the Defendant, Christopher Higgins is admitted.  The only issues are to the extent that the injuries suffered by Mr. Sequeira continued after August of 2012 and the damages available to Mr. Sequeira as the result of the negligence of Mr. Higgins.BACKGROUND...

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Warren v. Morgan

             The defendants seek costs in relation to a 22-day motor vehicle accident trial heard by this Court in April and May 2012. The defendant, Ms. Morgan, submits she is entitled to her costs and disbursements at scale B because the action against her was dismissed in its entirety. The defendant, Mr. Berretta, seeks his costs at scale B from the date of receipt of the defendants’ first formal offer to settle in February 2012 or, alternatively, from the date of their second formal offer to settle in April 2012 pursuant to Rule 9-1(15) of the Supreme Court Civil Rules. The defendants do not seek double costs....

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Yannacopoulos v. Cronk

             The plaintiff Michael Yannacopoulos sues for damages for injuries suffered as a result of a motor vehicle accident which took place on September 22, 2009, on King George Boulevard between 84th and 86th Avenue in Surrey, British Columbia (the “Accident”). Mr. Yannacopoulos was driving the middle vehicle in a three-car collision. As a result of the Accident, Mr. Yannacopoulos suffered a blow to his head, injuries to his neck, back, shoulders, right wrist, and dental injury. The main issue at trial concerned his low back pain which had lingered after the other injuries resolved....

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