30 Dec Etson v. Loblaw Companies Limited (Real Canadian Superstore)

Posted at 00:00h in Uncategorised

           On November 28, 2008, the plaintiff, then 76 years old, tripped over the corner of a wooden pallet in the defendant’s Superstore, fell down, and broke her hip.  She had surgery to pin her hip together but within nine months the hardware failed and she had to have two further operations: one to remove the hardware and another to replace her entire hip.  Fortunately, the last surgery was successful and the plaintiff is finally on the road to recovery....

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30 Dec Jackson v. Mongrain

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

           The plaintiff claims damages for negligence arising out of a motor vehicle accident which occurred on April 8, 2006 on the Lougheed Highway. The vehicle in which the plaintiff was a passenger was stopped in the left lane for eastbound traffic waiting for the vehicle ahead of it to complete a manoeuvre. The defendant drove her vehicle into the rear of the vehicle in which the plaintiff was seated. That the defendant was negligent is admitted. A pleading of contributory negligence is not pressed. That the plaintiff was injured is accepted by the defendant. A failure by the plaintiff to mitigate his loss is alleged by the defendant....

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22 Dec Lee v. Jarvie

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             In 2004, the plaintiff Stanley Lee was a 27-year old recent graduate from Simon Fraser University. Mr. Lee was single, living on his own and working as a clerk at Overwaitea Save-on-Foods in Coquitlam, British Columbia....

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17 Dec Borgfjord v. Penner

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             The plaintiff lives in Powell River, British Columbia. At about six o’clock in the evening of October 10, 2010, the plaintiff was injured in a motor vehicle accident that occurred just south of Powell River, on Highway 101....

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17 Dec Cross v. Cross

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             On September 5, 2008, the plaintiff was a passenger in an automobile, owned by his mother (the defendant Gail Theresa Zeilstra) and driven by his brother (the defendant Spencer Cross). The vehicle was struck by another automobile operated by the defendant Christian David McLean Bouwman....

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16 Dec Ibbitson v. Cooper

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

 Mr. Ibbitson was a helicopter logging faller.  On July 21, 2001 he was driving home from the work site when, in Prince George, he was broadsided by a car being driven by Mr. Cooper and owned by Ms. Wagner.  Mr. Ibbitson’s three-quarter ton pickup truck was pushed into the opposing lane and was hit almost directly head-on by an oncoming tractor, travelling without a trailer.  Mr. Cooper had run the stop sign....

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15 Dec De Gaye v. Bhullar

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             This is an action for damages arising out of a motor vehicle accident that occurred on March 16, 2005 in Surrey, B.C. at the intersection of 92nd Avenue and 132 Street. Liability is admitted by the defendants. The quantum of damages is the sole issue in dispute....

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15 Dec De Leon v. Harold

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             This trial involves a motor vehicle accident which took place on March 30, 2007, at the intersection of Marine Drive and McKay Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, when the plaintiff’s vehicle was rear-ended by the defendant’s vehicle....

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15 Dec Farrokhmanesh v. Sahib

Posted at 00:00h in Motor Vehicle Accident

             This is an application, brought by a Notice of Motion signed by Mr. Boyar as solicitor for the plaintiff. At the hearing, Mr. Boyar appeared along with Mr. Berardino, Q.C., who presented the oral argument. The application is to review the assessment of costs of District Registrar Sainty dated April 14, 2010, reported at 2010 BCSC 497 (the “Decision”)....

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