British Columbia Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Practice Manual--ONLINE

Everything you need to know about motor vehicle accident claims in BC

This publication is essential for: all lawyers with motor vehicle accident claims files

Current to: February 1, 2025

Advising your client on motor vehicle accident claims requires in-depth knowledge of BC's legislative scheme. Let the British Columbia Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Practice Manual be your guide through the many complex issues that frequently arise. Often referred to by eminent counsel as the "go-to" resource for researching the extensive range of legal and practice issues that arise, this resource offers you clear and succinct analysis of key issues, discussion of leading cases, practice points, checklists and over 60 sample forms.

"The BC Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Practice Manual is rightfully known as 'the bible for personal injury lawyers.' I have practised personal injury law for 35 years and still consult it weekly. The only frustrating part is that even though we have two copies at my firm of six lawyers, I can never find it in our library, because it is always in someone else's office being used! You should not practice personal injury law without this manual, even if you're not doing car accident claims." – Alison Murray, KC, Murray Jamieson Barristers & Solicitors

With an online subscription to British Columbia Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Practice Manual, your firm will be able to: 

• conveniently access detailed guidance at any time and from any location, search for relevant information, link directly to significant legislation, case law, and websites, and download precedents
• understand the intricacies of the Insurance (Vehicle) Act and Regulation and the legal principles that apply to your case
• get to the leading cases  you need for your client's case
• access quickly over 60 of the most commonly used sample forms

Subscribe today and be well prepared to advise your clients with motor vehicle accident claims! View a sample from this book!

The 2025 Update to the British Columbia Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Practice Manual includes:

• discussion of Court of Appeal for British Columbia cases, including: counsel's duty of utmost good faith to their client in the context of their retainer agreement; sufficiency of evidence relating to pre-existing conditions; and awards for future care costs set aside and remitted for redetermination and further analysis of specific care items
• discussion of British Columbia Supreme Court cases referencing: litigation privilege; sufficiency of pleadings relating to punitive damages; standard for infants relating to contributory negligence; claims for psychological injury; awards for future loss of income earning capacity; contingencies in damages analysis; and evidentiary requirements relating to applications to exclude disbursements from overall disbursement limits
• discussion of Civil Resolution Tribunal adjudications dealing with: evidentiary issues; "minor injuries" arising from motor vehicle accidents occurring on or after April 1, 2019; what constitutes "serious impairment" and "substantial inability to perform activities of daily living"
• reminders in each chapter to consider the date of the accident to proceed under the appropriate legislative scheme

Annual subscription rates are based on firm size. A monthly payment option is available.

Online subscribers can purchase a print copy of British Columbia Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Practice Manual for 30% off its regular price.

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CLEBC Legal Editor
Allison A. Cartier
acartier@cle.bc.ca

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Chapters

1. Preliminary Matters

2. Commencing and Defending an Action

3. Workers' Compensation Considerations

4. Discovery

5. Part 7 Benefits and Enhanced Accident (Part 10) Benefits

6. Unidentified Motorists

7. Uninsured Motorists

8. Underinsured Motorist Protection

9. Optional Insurance Contracts

10. Defences

11. Out-of-province and Excess Automobile Insurance

12. Mediation, Summary Trial, and Settlement Conferences

13. Assessment of Damages

14. Family Compensation Claims

15. Settlements for Minors

16. Structured Settlements and Judgments

17. Costs and Interest

18. Recovery and Subrogation

19. Practice Before the Civil Resolution Tribunal: Motor Vehicle Accident Claims

Forms and Precedents

Checklists

Tables
Case Table
Statutes and Related Material Table
Index

Editorial Board
James U. Buckley — Slater Vecchio LLP, Vancouver
Jaron Fegusson — Pacific Law Group, Vancouver
Karen E. Jamieson, KC — Murray Jamieson, Vancouver
Sandra M. Katalinic — Eyford Partners LLP, Vancouver
Nicole Kelly — Slater Vecchio LLP, Vancouver

Authors
John Bradbury — Bradbury Sippel, Nanaimo
Luke Dineley — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Jaron Fergusson — Pacific Law Group, Vancouver
Kaelyn Fountain — Eyford Partners LLP, Vancouver
Johanna Goosen — WorkSafeBC, Richmond
Ron Hatch — Public Guardian and Trustee of BC, Vancouver
Alecia Haynes — Murray Jamieson, Vancouver
Steven H. Heringa — Paine Edmonds LLP, Vancouver
Matthew Hinton — ICBC—Senior Counsel (Accident Benefits and Fraud), Vancouver
J. Derek James — Pacific Law Group, Vancouver
Karen E. Jamieson, KC — Murray Jamieson, Vancouver
Sandra M. Katalinic — Eyford Partners LLP, Vancouver
Anthony Leoni — Rice Harbut Elliott LLP, Vancouver
Maurice Mirosolin — Pacific Law Group, Vancouver 
Farzana Mohamed — Mackoff Mohamed, Vancouver 
Joel Morris — Harper Grey LLP, Vancouver
David Newell — Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal, Richmond
Vincent R.K. Orchard, KC — Vincent R. Orchard Law Corporation, Burnaby
Jimmy Peterson — Paine Edmonds LLP, Vancouver
Christopher Rivers — Civil Resolution Tribunal, Victoria
Kenneth H.N. Soe — Eyford Partners LLP, Vancouver
Sarah M. Walker — Murray Jamieson, Vancouver
Mary-Helen Wright — Pacific Law Group, Vancouver