25 Apr Carreon-Rivera v. Zhang

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             The plaintiff, Anna Carreon-Rivera, was involved in a collision on October 16, 2009 when the vehicle she was driving was struck by the vehicle driven by the defendant Guo Qing Zhang. Ms. Carreon-Rivera was proceeding westbound in the curb lane on 41st Avenue in Vancouver, British Columbia, when the defendant, who was in a vehicle in the adjacent lane, made a sudden lane change and collided with her vehicle. The collision pushed Ms. Carreon-Rivera’s vehicle up onto the right hand curb. The vehicle was then dragged along by the defendant’s vehicle for half a block before coming to a rest....

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25 Apr Rahimi v. Ma

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             The plaintiff, Ms. Rahimi, seeks damages for personal injuries she suffered as a result of a motor vehicle accident that occurred on April 9, 2010 (the “Accident”). The issues raised in this action are made simpler by numerous factors. Liability is admitted. Ms. Rahimi did not suffer from any pre-Accident injuries or disabilities. There is no suggestion of any intervening factors that may have contributed to or exacerbated her injuries. The defendants called no expert evidence. To the credit of counsel for both parties they worked efficiently and cooperatively to address those issues that mattered and to ignore those that did not....

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25 Apr Gray v. Kohnert

Posted at 00:00h in Uncategorised

             THE COURT:  This is an assessment of a bill of costs following the settlement of a personal injury action. The tariff items are not in dispute, but there are disbursements of $21,854.06 in dispute. The disbursements are primarily for medical legal opinions....

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22 Apr Bulpitt v. Muirhead

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             This action arises out of a motor vehicle accident (the “Accident”) that occurred on November 5, 2007.  The plaintiff was stopped at a traffic light when his vehicle was rear-ended by the defendants’ vehicle....

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22 Apr Biggs v. Doe

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             On April 30, 2006, David Biggs was seriously injured in a motor vehicle collision on Highway 3, just east of exit 173, near Hope, B.C. The collision occurred when a motorcycle operated by Mr. Biggs collided with the pup trailer of a dump truck driven by Kevin Dueck. The vehicles collided shortly after Mr. Biggs entered the highway from an eastbound on-ramp, when he came into contact with the right front portion of the pup trailer as Mr. Dueck drove eastward in the far left lane (the “fast lane”) of three eastbound lanes. At this point along the highway there are two “through” lanes and one merging lane, several kilometres long, to the far right. This section of Highway 3 is virtually straight with a very slight ascending grade for eastbound traffic. The speed limit is 100 km/h. There were no adverse weather or road conditions at the time of the collision....

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17 Apr Advantage Helicopters Inc. v. Heliponents

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             On October 6, 2007, a 1964 Bell 204B helicopter owned by Rilpa Enterprises (“Rilpa”) and leased by Advantage Helicopters Inc. (“Advantage”), experienced a sudden and total loss of tail rotor drive and crashed while being used to conduct heli-logging operations near Kaslo, British Columbia. The main transmission assembly of the helicopter had been overhauled by the defendant, Heliponents, Inc. (“Heliponents”) at its Mesa, Arizona facility in May 2007. The plaintiffs allege the accident occurred as a result of the negligent overhaul of the transmission, which resulted in starvation of oil supply to bearings in the quill assembly of the transmission, failure of the duplex bearing set, seizure of that portion of the transmission, and the fracture of the tail rotor driveshaft....

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11 Apr R. v. Van De Graaf

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             This is an appeal by the Crown from the decision of a provincial court judge to stay certain charges against the respondent, Mr. Van de Graaf, pursuant to s. 24(1) of the Charter, as a result of police misconduct in the course of his arrest. For the reasons that follow I would not interfere with the decision of the trial judge.I.        FACTS...

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11 Apr Minenko v. Minenko

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             The plaintiff was a front seat passenger in a vehicle driven by her husband, the defendant Dmitriy Minenko, on August 29, 2009 when it was in collision with another vehicle at the intersection of 8th Avenue and 20th Street in New Westminster....

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11 Apr Randhawa v. Chiang

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             On October 23, 2010, the plaintiff was driving her car eastbound on Kingsway Avenue in Burnaby, British Columbia, when she was rear-ended by a car being driven by the defendant....

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