We are pleased to announce our success in opposing the insurance company’s application to subject our client to further questioning by their defence lawyer. The insurer sought a court order to increase the permitted time to question our client under oath, which is known as an “examination for discovery”. Under the B.C. Rules of Court, […]
We are pleased to announce that reasons for judgement were just released in our case Sharma v. Sharma Estate, 2016 BCSC 1397. The case centered on the Estate our clients’ mother, and her Will that disinherited three children in favour of one son. In the Will, the defendant stood to inherit the entire Estate. The […]
We are pleased to announce our recent success in defending our client’s interests by preventing an independent medical examination (IME) with a neurologist chosen by the insurance company. IMEs are often obtained by both the claimant and the insurer over the course of a claim in order to produce medical-legal opinions that support each side’s position […]
Advancing an injury claim requires a claimant to disclose relevant medical and employment records. However, the insurance company should not be entitled to a “fishing expedition” by gaining access to a claimant’s entire medical and employment history with the hopes of finding something they can later argue is relevant. As a firm representing the interests […]
Mussio Goodman is pleased to announce that, after a two week trial conducted by our lawyers, the jury awarded our client $216,500 for pain and suffering, lost wages, and medical expenses. This jury award comes after the insurer refused to settle for any compensation whatsoever for the injuries that our client, Dainya Watson, sustained in an accident […]
The BC Supreme Court has ordered ICBC to pay an injured claimant more than $350,000 due to the corporation’s ‘malicious’ and ‘odious’ false accusations of making a fraudulent injury claim. Yesterday’s decision in Arsenovski v. Bodin 2016 BCSC 359 underscores the court’s strong discontent for malicious prosecution by ICBC over perceived fraud cases. Substantial damages were awarded to the […]
