Pedestrian in Crosswalk found 20% at Fault for her Brian Injury
In this crosswalk personal injury occurring in Port Coquitlam (Paskall v. Scheithauer,2014 BCCA 26) the jury found a pedestrian twenty percent fault for her fractured her skull and traumatic brain...
View ArticleTraumatic Brain Injury Results in $2.5 Million Award for Teenager
This Car accident brain injury award for an 18 year old passenger (Hermanson v. Durkee, 2014 BCSC 877) arose from a single vehicle accident on a forest road in British Columbia. The vehicle left the...
View ArticleMaximum Injury Award for Pain and Suffering $351,000
The question in this personal injury case was whether the claimant should be awarded the maximum amount for pain and suffering, reserved for catastrophic injury, or at something lower. On the...
View Article$160,000 Pain and Suffering for Mild Complicated Brain Injury
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Compensation Mild traumatic brain injury, MTBI, is often difficult to diagnose and as a result insurance companies like ICBC often refuse to pay proper compensation for...
View ArticleMetal Pole to the Head Lands $297,000 Award for Inner Ear Injury
Fueled by a drunken rage, the defendant drove over to the claimant’s house in Mission B.C. armed with a metal pole intent on inflicting grievous bodily harm. The claimant said that the truck came...
View Article$175,000 Pain and Suffering Award for Brain Injury with Normal MRI
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) can be difficult to diagnose after car accident. The Insurance Corporation of BC generally refuses to accept the existence of a MTBI and will fight these claims to...
View Article$175,000 Pain and Suffering Award for MTBI and Somatoform Disorder
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) is often hotly contested by ICBC and other insurance companies after a car accident. In this case the judge accepted the diagnosis. She had the benefit of hearing...
View ArticleAvoid Becoming a Hired Gun- Brain Injury Opinion Rejected Again
Doctors and therapists that want to avoid earning the label of “hired gun” should: (1) limit the amount of work they do for one insurance company; (2) keep up to date with changes in medical research;...
View ArticleFirst Steps to Brain Injury Recovery Following a Car Accident
Brain injury following a car accident needs to be documented and treated for the greatest chance of a person being put back in the position they were in before the injury. Here are three important...
View ArticleBrain Injury Case Appeal Dismissed as Fact Driven
A car accident injury claimant is entitled to appeal a Supreme Court decision to the Court of Appeal. However, as shown in our case study, absent a palpable and overriding error affecting the trial...
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