03 Mar Warkentin v. Riggs

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             This matter arises from a motor vehicle accident which occurred on March 14, 2005. In her Statement of Claim, the plaintiff alleges injury to her neck, and right shoulder; she also alleges “other injuries, full particulars at trial”. Liability was admitted in the Statement of Defence. A first trial was set for January 2009 but was adjourned when the plaintiff’s first counsel was appointed to the British Columbia Supreme Court bench. A new seven day trial was set to proceed on May 3, 2010. Counsel for the defendant now seeks to adjourn that new trial date, alleging that the plaintiff’s claim has materially changed from that which was pled....

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26 Feb Mund v. Sovio

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             The defendant, Dr. Olli Matti Sovio, seeks to strike the plaintiff’s, Jaswant Singh Mund’s, amended statement of claim (“ASC”) for failure to disclose a reasonable cause of action pursuant to Rule 19(24)(a) of the Rules of Court (the “Rules”) .BACKGROUND...

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26 Feb Demarzo v. Michaud

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             On March 19, 2005, the defendant drove his Pontiac Sunbird into the back of a Jeep Cherokee driven by the plaintiff Deidra Demarzo, who had stopped for a red light at a Vancouver Island Highway intersection. The plaintiff had turned to her right to say something to her passenger, Daniel Saliken. The light turned from red to green just before impact, the force of which propelled the Jeep about a car’s length into the intersection....

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02 Feb Barbosa v. Castillo

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             THE COURT:  This is an appeal by the defendant in this personal injury matter from the decision of a master refusing his application, made pursuant to Rule 30 of the Rules of Court, to have the plaintiff examined by a neurologist.  The claim arises from a motor vehicle accident that occurred in 2006.  The defendant's vehicle is alleged to have struck the plaintiff's motorcycle from the rear....

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26 Jan Harris v. Zabaras

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             The plaintiff, Neale Harris, was injured in a motor vehicle accident on January 28, 2006 in Surrey. His pick-up truck was struck from behind by another pick-up truck driven by the defendant, Efthimios Zabaras, while the plaintiff was stopped at a red light. The plaintiff suffered ongoing neck and arm pain and headaches as a result....

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25 Jan Forde v. Inland Health Authority

Posted at 00:00h in Medical Malpractice

             The Plaintiff, Leonora Forde, is a quadriparetic which means that she has partial paralysis in both of her arms and legs.  The degree of this paralysis is such that although she can stand with support and walk short distances with a walker, she is wheelchair dependent.  Furthermore, she suffers from frank incontinence – that is, she has lost control of her bladder function.  These injuries are permanent....

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04 Jan Szymanski v. Morin

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             The plaintiff, Andrzej Szymanski, claims damages for personal injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle accident on December 7, 2004 (the “accident”) when he was rear-ended by Mr. Morin, a defendant in these proceedings, while stopped at a red light at Expo Boulevard and Davie Street in Vancouver, British Columbia....

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