Personal Injury Conference-2010

This book is essential for: personal injury counsel, both plaintiff and defence, at all levels of experience.

Current to: October 2010

The updates, the issues, the information you need!
This set of course materials from CLEBC’s comprehensive annual program on personal injury practice is suitable for all personal injury litigators, junior and experienced, plaintiff bar and defence bar. As with previous volumes, this book covers an eclectic mix of established and current topics ranging across a broad spectrum: case law updates, important substantive issues, expert evidence, professionalism and ethics, medical professionals, and law practice management. An important focus of these course materials is to provide counsel with practical practice related advice from highly experienced faculty.

CONTENTS

• update on case law and legislation: costs, damages, document production, offers to settle
• conflict of interest in a (mainly BC) personal injury practice: motor vehicle accident cases
• is Swirski dead?: issues that arise from Swirski, new legislation and changes to the Rules of Court
• damages for loss of earning capacity: standard of proof, nature of award, application of principles of assessment
• indivisible injuries and the allocation of responsibility for damages in cases involving multiple consecutive torts
• mitigation: how far is the plaintiff expected to go?
• the impact response of motorcycle helmets at different impact severities
• cost assessments under the civil rules: entitlement, preparing bills, assessments, the tariff, disbursements, new tariff items and transitional provisions
• lawyer as doctor: initial intake information, what next?, why lawyers need to be involved