“Do not sign anything” is a stern warning I see or hear from time to time in marketing materials by some personal injury lawyers. Use that phrase as a google search criteria and the first page of results includes a brief video of a California lawyer saying that if the insurance company asks you to sign something fast, it is… (more…)

“It seems grossly unfair and against the public interest for ICBC to make representations to a claimant, leading him to think his claim had been accepted and that they were intending to offer him a settlement but, after the passage of time and without warning, tell him he has failed to meet the technical requirements of the Act depriving him… (more…)

It’s time for my periodic rant against the British Columbia Government about our cell phone laws. The trigger for my rant, this time around, is a Transportation Safety Board report into the cause of a single occupant small plane crash that occurred near the Fort St. John airport in November, 2011. The report was released and made the news this… (more…)

My father moved last month to live down the street from me.  We hadn’t lived in the same city since I left Regina to go to the University of Victoria for law school in 1991. Having been born in 1935, he was 56 in 1991.  He is now 77.  When he retired, he and his wife moved to live in… (more…)

“If you want trial dollars, you’re going to have to go to trial” I wish to be very clear that I am not quoting the ICBC adjuster who has been assigned to the majority of my cases, nor any other adjuster I am dealing with.  I have been given that quote from other personal injury lawyers, the words spoken by… (more…)