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- Is psychological injury a minor injury?
Is Psychological Injury a Minor Injury? There is value in reviewing published cases all across the Country to gain insights on specific issues that are common in personal injury law. One topic of interest is psychological injury. We have seen several Provinces adding “psychological injury” to the d … Read more »
- Pre-existing injuries and crumbling skull arguments
Legal Resource involving crumbling skull arguments This is a recent case in which differing views led to significantly different estimates of damages. Some of the injuries discussed were concussion/mTBI, mechanical neck and shoulder pain, cervicogenic headache pain, chronic myofascial and cervicogen … Read more »
- Asymptomatic Disc Herniation
Legal Resource: Can a disc herniation be asymptomatic for some period of time (specifically: several years after an accident) and still be causally related to an accident? Find out by reading our ARTICLE. This key issue in this case is causation. Is the Plaintiff’s herniated disc that was asymptom … Read more »
- General Principles 2024
Legal Resource – Stay Current We share a quotation from a Judge in a 2024 BCSC Court published decision (link below) regarding the general principles on causation of loss and pre-existing injury. In recent years, I have been called upon to decide a series of cases involving plaintiffs injured in mo … Read more »
- Alberta Court of Appeal Decision on Prejudgment Interest
On August 21, 2024, the Court of Appeal of Alberta’s decision in Jackson v. Cooper has been published. We have previously written about this case in our article “Minor Injury Regulations, Alberta” and we are linking our article for your ease of reference – worth reading this trial decision if you ha … Read more »