Robert Rorison News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

B.C. passed a law allowing ICBC to cap disbursements in motor vehicle injury claims; Trial Lawyers Association of BC argues doing so is unconstitutional.

B.C. passed a law allowing ICBC to cap disbursements in motor vehicle injury claims; Trial Lawyers Association of BC argues doing so is unconstitutional.

Article content B.C. Attorney-General David Eby has written to the plaintiffs in a $900-million ICBC class-action case advising that the province is proposing to introduce legislation that he says would have an impact on the lawsuit. The recently delivered letter was discussed on Monday during an adjournment application filed by the B.C. government and ICBC on the first day of an expected certification hearing in the class-action suit in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Proposed legislation would impact $900-mil...

Methot, the plaintiff for the accident victim class, was left a quadriplegic after being injured in a motor vehicle accident on June 9, 2014, near Kamloops. He was a passenger in a vehicle that crossed the centre line and struck an oncoming vehicle. Methot, who was 24 years old at the time of the collision that left him unable to work and in need of care, became eligible to receive accident benefits, and did receive benefits, as a result of the accident. But in April 2015, ICBC advised him through his lawyer that his accident benefit fund had been depleted after having reached the maximum ...

Article content ICBC has apologized to one of the representative plaintiffs involved in a $900 million class action lawsuit filed against the auto insurer. In March 2020, a lawsuit filed by representative plaintiffs Brayden Methot and Robert Rorison alleged that the B.C. government had engaged in an illegal scheme to divert hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars, resulting in losses to benefits for accident victims and driving up insurance rates for B.C. drivers. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or ICBC apologizes to accident victim in class action lawsu...