Category Archives: Legal Decisions

Mussio Goodman is proud to display our recent legal decisions in the legal field of personal injury claims and estate litigation claims.

Mussio Goodman Successful at Trial in Overturning Will For Disinherited Clients

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Mussio Goodman Achieves Successful Judgment for Disinherited client 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 […]

Mussio Goodman Prevents ICBC Doctor Examination of Our Client 

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The Court Agreed with Mussio Goodman and dismissed ICBC’s Application Mussio Goodman is pleased to announce our recent success in the Supreme Court of British Columbia in defending our client’s interests by preventing an independent medical examination (IME) with a neurologist chosen by ICBC. IMEs are often obtained by both the claimant and ICBC over […]

Court Denies ICBC’s Application To Obtain Our Client’s Medical Records

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Mussio Goodman Protects Clients Rights and Privacy Against ICBC Advancing an ICBC claim for injuries and lost wages requires a claimant to disclose relevant medical and employment records. However, ICBC 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 […]

Jury Awards Our Client $216,500 After ICBC Offered Zero Dollars Before Trial

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Mussio Goodman Achieves Successful Judgment as Reported by Local Media As reported in the Vancouver Sun, 24 Hours Vancouver and Global News, Mussio Goodman is pleased to announce that, after a two week trial conducted by our lawyers Jeff Locke and Michelle Gillespie in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the jury awarded our client $216,500 for […]

ICBC to Pay $350,000 in Punitive Damages for False “Injury Fraud” Accusation

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ICBC To Pay Damages for False Injury Fraud Accusation 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 […]

Court Declares ICBC’s Conduct as “Ill-Advised” and “Unfair”

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As previously discussed, you can make a claim for damages against ICBC if you are injured in a hit-and-run accident.  In order to make such a claim, s. 24(5) of the Insurance (Vehicle) Act requires that the victims of hit-and-run accidents make “all reasonable efforts” to find and identify the at-fault driver. The courts have considered […]