Personal Injury
Our lawyers have decades of experience successfully representing victims suffering from others’ negligence. We have successfully sued and resolved claims involving dangerous stairwells and surfaces in residential and commercial buildings. We have successfully sued drunk drivers and their insurance companies. We utilize mediation, negotiation and arbitration to resolve personal injury disputes, and we will not hesitate to go to a Supreme Court trial if the insurance company is not offering you a good settlement.
We Can Assist You With Serious Personal Injuries
We have experience helping clients who suffer from personal injuries including:
- Brain injury
- Fractured bones
- Neurological disorders
- Spinal cord injuries/nerve root impingement
- Chronic pain
- Depression/anxiety/somatic symptom disorder (“SSD”)
- Inner ear otalyryngological injuries
- Fractured teeth
- Ruptured internal organs
- Many other injuries
We Can Assist You With Serious Personal Injuries
We have experience helping clients who suffer from personal injuries including:
- Brain injury
- Fractured bones
- Neurological disorders
- Spinal cord injuries/nerve root impingement
- Chronic pain
- Depression/anxiety/somatic symptom disorder (“SSD”)
- Inner ear otalyryngological injuries
- Fractured teeth
- Ruptured internal organs
- Many other injuries
We assist our clients by drawing on our extensive network of medical/health care professionals to ensure you get the best care and the best expert analysis of your injuries.
There are strict time limitation periods which must be observed.
If you do not file a lawsuit in Court within these time limits, you may lose your personal injury claim forever. Some of these time lines can be very short in cases where there is a city or other local government involved in the personal injury.
Your Claim for Personal Injury Damages
If you have been injured as a result of dangerous surface conditions on private property, physical assault by a security guard for no reason, you may be entitled to compensation for your damages. This also may apply to a motor vehicle accident occurring in B.C. before May 1, 2021 or an accident occurring in Alberta, Ontario or the United States. Please note that your rights to claim for fair and proper motor vehicle or pedestrian accident compensation have been stripped away from you by for BC accidents occurring after May 1, 2021, the date no-fault was proclaimed by ICBC and the B.C. Government. In exceptionally rare cases where the drunk driver was successfully convicted of a criminal charge, a pedestrian may still have a limited ability to hire counsel and sue for pain and suffering damages.
If you were injured by a dangerous surface as a result of neglect or disrepair by the property owner or a car accident occurring before May 1, 2021 you may be entitled to the following compensation:
Usually called “non-pecuniary damages,” this category of compensation is to provide you with monies for the damage to your quality of life caused by the pain and suffering you must endure as a result of your accident injury. Non-pecuniary damages will be awarded for quadraplegia, chronic neck pain, brain injury, psychiatric injuries, broken bones or other injuries. The amount of pain and suffering damages awarded or negotiated will depend on the nature of the injury as well as court precedent for the type of injury you have sustained. A permanent injury will usually attract a higher award than a short-term injury.
If you missed work and income as a result of an injury caused by someone else’s negligence, you may be entitled to compensation for that lost income.
If your ability to work may be damaged in the future, you may be entitled to a “lump sum” award for this lost capacity to earn an income in the future. A total disability from work will obviously qualify for such an award but a partial disability lasting into the future may support an award for the loss of future earning capacity. In some cases, an individual may receive such an award even if their income has gone up. For example, if someone must transition away from a lesser paying position due to an injury but could work in a less physical position that pays more, an award for loss of future earning capacity may still be granted in certain cases.
Your out-of-pocket expenses for mediation and treatment, such as physiotherapy, may be reimbursed under this head of damage.
If you require treatment in the future, you may be entitled to a “lump sum” award for the cost of future care. Such treatment might include massage therapy, chiropractic treatment, nerve blocks, trigger point injections or psychological counseling.
Insurance companies very often resist and/or gloss over this head of damage. If you have lost or have an impaired ability to perform your housekeeping or personal care chores, you may have a claim for this head of damage. Unfortunately, many insurance companies devalue housework as opposed to paid work and will vigorously resists such claims. The lawyers at Dyson Law recently obtained a $60,000 award for this head of damage (as part of a $400,000+ total award). ICBC offered zero for this damaged capacity, but we successfully won at trial a fair award for our client.
In addition to the insurance of the negligent business or property owner, you may have a claim against your own insurance policy for certain payments. If you are unable to work and have a private disability policy, your policy should pay you. We will assist you should your own private disability policy deny you wage loss replacement or critical illness payments.
If your business sustained losses as a result of your personal injury, we may be able to claim that loss for you. In order to prove this loss, you will need to show that your loss was caused by the accident directly. For example, you may have to show how the extra employee you had to hire to replace your own work reduced your profits. We work with expert accountants and certified business valuators to help quantify your company’s losses.
We Care
When you retain Dyson Law as your lawyer, we use our experience, expertise, networks, passion and care to help you and your family get through your difficult time. We enjoy helping the injured victims of negligence with their personal injury claims.
Contingency Fees
We usually charge a percentage (%) fee to the final settlement or court award of your personal injury claim. This means that normally no fees are paid up front and our fee is based on our results for our client.
