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WINNING YOUR B.C. INJURY CLAIM: How to successfully navigate the ICBC minefield
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Where to start.
Please click on any of the titles below to start your search for answers to the crucial questions you have about your ICBC injury claim.
This page is an overview of the information you will find there. You may return to it at any time.
Your inital contact with ICBC
How ICBC should assist you after your injury
- ICBC disability benefits versus other disability benefits.
- Payment by ICBC for part of the cost of your treatment
- Financial assistance with your household chores
Dealing with ICBC after your initial meeting with an adjuster
- Steps in a personal injury lawsuit against ICBC
- ICBC surveillance
- If you were at work at the time the collision occurred - WorkSafeBC
- Settlement negotiations
Valuing a claim for damages - the various components of a claim
- Pain & suffering
- Pre-accident problems & elderly victims
- Cost of treatment, care & assistance in the future
- Compensation for family members of the injured person
- Past loss of income
- Loss of future earning capacity
- TNT's recent successes in recovering damages
Medical experts & records
- What you need from your medical experts to prove your claim
- Work capacity evaluators to prove you can't do your job
- Medical specialists
- Doctors ICBC hires that it wants you to see - beware
- Your medical records - the extent of your right to privacy
Keeping a pain diary
- Is it valuable to keep a diary?
- How extensive should your diary be?
- How do you keep your diary confidential from ICBC?
Hiring a lawyer
- Will I risk receiving less help from ICBC early on if I hire a lawyer?
- When is the best time to hire a lawyer to handle my case?
- Is it better for me to hire a lawyer on an hourly basis or on a percentage basis?
- Do percentage fees vary?
- If I hire a lawyer, who pays the expenses to fight my case such as the cost of reports from medical experts?
- How do legal fees work if I change lawyers?
- Is there any harm in my hiring a member of a law firm who also does work for ICBC?
