In British Columbia, there are numerous lawyers and law firms who work for ICBC as defence counsel. They advocate for ICBC and they work to protect ICBC from personal injury claims by reducing claims. To reduce claims, often an injured claimants’ credibility and their medical team are attacked. A staggering number of lawyers who work…
This ICBC claimant suffered injuries sustained in two separate motor vehicle collisions. He succeeded in obtaining a $158,142.00 award against the guilty drivers for his injury. However, he did not have a lawyer and took the unusual step of seeking punitive damages for bad faith against ICBC for the way he was treated. He claimed…
ICBC is in trouble again with allegations of bad behaviour by an insured. This plaintiff had Autoplan insurance coverage from ICBC for a 1990 Ferrari F40 when he accidentally drove the Vehicle into a utility pole, leaving it badly damaged. The plaintiff said that ICBC took control of the vehicle immediately after the accident and never relinquished…
ICBC, in this personal injury case, having been ordered to pay almost $400,000 in punitive damages for reprehensible conduct, wins a stay in the payment pending their appeal (Arsenovski v. Bodin,2016 BCCA 178). This ICBC injury case involved a car accident which occurred at the intersection of Nelson Avenue and Imperial Street in Burnaby. The claimant pedestrian was…
There has been little change to the law relating to filing and reporting your injury claim to the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, ICBC, since my last post about car accident injury benefits from ICBC. In this article I will focus on some of the duties that ICBC owes to you as your insurance company…
In this British Columbia insurance claim (Kendall v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada) the claimant was suing the insurance company, Sun Life, for denying her claim for disability insurance benefits. She claimed for her benefits denied by Sun Life, as well as for mental distress and punitive damages. The personal injury claimant says that Sun Life acted in bad faith…