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Personal Injury Claim Destroyed By Claimant’s Own Facebook Pictures

If you’ve been hurt in a car crash, your credibility is extremely important in proving your claim for damages – especially if your injury is a “whiplash” or soft tissue injury. With a whiplash, there may be no objective evidence. Your subjective reports of pain and limited movement may be the only “proof” of your […]

Negligent Bars Face Liability For Car Accidents

Bars, pubs and other enterprises that make money serving alcohol must try hard to prevent predictable injury. If they don’t, a court may order them to pay big dollars to an injured victim. Say you get seriously hurt in a drunken fight in a night club, and staff didn’t take any steps to break it […]

Brain Injuries And Their Effects In Car Crashes

“Mental Illness often a Byproduct of Concussions” declared an attention-grabbing newspaper headline recently. The effort to draw attention to the often misunderstood subject of brain injuries (of which concussions are a common type) is justified. “Concussion” or even “mild concussion” sounds harmless and, too often, is incorrectly viewed lightly, like a sprain or minor fracture. […]

Bike Lanes Cause Bike Crashes

The City Council of Vancouver has laid down a number of bike lanes in Downtown Vancouver separated from heavy vehicle traffic by concrete dividers. The intention was to increase cyclist safety, but as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. ICBC statistics show that the number of crashes has actually increased […]

Court Awards Damages For Diminished Earning Capacity, Even Though Earnings Don’t Go Down

If you’re injured in a car crash, caused by the fault of another, you could suffer many losses. One loss may be work-related – you may be forced to find an easier but lower-paying job and be unable to earn as much income as before the accident. Lawyers call this loss “diminished earning capacity.” It’s […]

How ICBC Assesses Whiplash “Pain and Suffering”

Car Accident Law Firms Crash! Somebody hits you from behind. Your head jerks back and you get a whiplash. You develop pain – strong pain – and hard-to-pin-down soft tissue injuries in your neck and back which bother you for a long time after. Among other things, you’re entitled to be compensated for your “pain, […]

Courts Compensate For Loss of Opportunity to Marry

It’s a sad but true fact of life. When a girl or young woman is badly injured, her chances of getting married diminish significantly. Aside from the impact on her pleasure in life, there’s also a financial blow – she may lose the benefit from the earnings of a future husband. In recent years, Canadian […]

Bars and Pubs Responsible For Drunk Driving Injuries

After golfing with his buddies, Peter tossed down 12 pints of beer, then got in his van, only to smash into David, who was out enjoying a bike ride. David suffered serious head injuries as a result. Is Peter solely responsible for the accident that ruined David’s life? Or should the pub and Peter’s waitress […]

Beware of Facebook If Suing For Injuries

What you post on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube or other social media can come back to haunt you. This is especially true if you say the back injury you suffered in a car accident severely restricted your activities, but Facebook photos show you skiing down black diamond runs. Of course this is only a problem […]

Using Your Cell Phone to Prove Accident Liability

Cell phones are great gadgets. Now, as well as being useful for talking (but not while driving!) and taking pictures, a cell phone can also be a useful tool at the scene of a car accident. It may even turn out to be decisive in the all-too-common situation where a court is faced with the […]

Car Crash Concussion and Its Consequences

Sport-induced injuries get the most press. But car accidents are by far the most common source of concussions, which in some cases, have life-long effects. A 2010 decision of the Supreme Court of BC dealt with such a case. “Helen” (not her real name), 17, was a passenger in a truck that drove off the […]

What To Do If Hurt In a Car Accident

If you’re hurt in a car accident, you may be entitled to receive compensation for your injuries. To maximize your chances of getting a fair settlement, there are a number of things you can do. Immediately after the accident, you and the other driver should exchange names, addresses and phone numbers plus driver’s licence, registered […]