Driving After Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Physical disabilities and cognitive impairment are the main reasons that an individual may be unable to drive after a traumatic brain injury. Doctors are required to inform the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles that a person has a health condition which impairs their...
22nd Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference | Feb 2012
Date: February 15-17, 2012, Location: Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre in Vancouver, BC Satellite Conferences held simultaneously in Victoria and Kamloops, BC. The Annual Pacific Coast Brain Inury Conference will return February 15-17, 2012. The theme for 2012 is: Real...
G.F. Strong Rehab Centre Acquired Brain Injury Programs
G.F. Strong hosts a number of workshops for suvivors of brain injury and stroke, their family and friends. These workshops provide an open, informal forum in which to discuss and learn about the brain, how it works, and its recovery. Attendees concerns, questions and...
Read the latest issue of THE Challenge!
The Brain Injury Association of America authors a quarterly publication, THE Challenge!, which offers readers advice, support and guidance for those who have sustained a traumatic brain injury and their families. The latest issue of THE Challenge! features several...
Observations from the SickKids Centre for Brain and Behaviour Conference
SickKids Centre for Brain & Behaviour 2nd Biennial Conference - Brain Injury in Children July 12 - 14, 2011 – Toronto, Canada Day one of the conference was dedicated to a review of issues relating to birth injury and neonatal encephalopathy. We had some excellent...
A Run to Remember – brain injury awareness event
Brain injury survivor David McGuire is running a marathon a day across Canada to raise awareness of brain injury. The New Westminister native sustained a brain injury in 2005 and, although he was told that he may never walk again, David completed his first marathon a...
Brain Injury as a Result of Prescribed Medications
Not all brain injury arises from a traumatic event. A number of our clients have developed a often irreversible brain disorder called tardive dyskinesia (tardive means "delayed" and dyskinesia means "abnormal movement"). Tardive dyskinesia is a serious side effect...
Fraser Health & Douglas College Brain Injury Film Festival
Roughly 14,000 British Columbians suffer a brain injury each year, and it remains the leading cause of death and disability for people under 45. Some 300,000 Canadians, meanwhile, live with brain injuries caused by stroke. Fraser Health’s Acquired Brain Injury Program...
Rules about operating a vehicle not always the same
We tend to think about injuries arising from vehicle collisions as simply the result of “motor vehicle collisions” and that the rules associated with driving are the same whether the vehicle involved in a collision is a motor cycle, sports car, family van, snow plow...
ThinkFirst Canada combatting head injury in sport
The issue of head injuries in sport has exploded onto the Canadian scene in 2011. The media frenzy caused by the National Hockey League's biggest star, Sidney Crosby, falling victim to serious concussions grew with the deaths of former NHL and NFL players who suffered...
Impaired facial affect recognition as a result of TBI
Impaired facial affect recognition appears to be a significant problem for survivors of traumatic brain injury. These difficulties can be partially attributed to problems with emotion perception. Mounting scientific evidence shows facial affect recognition to be...
Study Links Brain Injury and Depression
A recent study produced by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that 30% of individuals who suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) will experience depression after the injury. "Any patient who has a traumatic brain injury is at a real risk for...
Rehabilitation: Courtesy of your insurance company
It’s no secret that prompt rehabilitation practices have reduced the ultimate cost of ICBC claims, and ICBC rehabilitation coordinators are an integral part of this process. But it’s important to remember that these coordinators are part of the insurance defence team...
Webster & Associates welcomes Kara Naish
We would like to welcome lawyer Kara Naish to our team. Kara recently joined Webster & Associates, bringing with her over 10 years of legal experience in the insurance defence field. Kara left this practice because she truly wanted to assist individuals through...
Appointing a committee as legal guardian
In most cases an adult is legally capable of making their own decisions, to initiate, and settle a legal action. However, if a person is not legally competent to manage their own affairs or to make proper decisions in their own interest, someone else can (and should)...
What can you do if you don’t know who caused the BC collision that resulted in your injuries?
Under section 24(5) of the Insurance Motor Vehicle Act you can successfully sue ICBC as the nominal defendant if you have taken all reasonable steps to find the driver who caused your injuries. However, the recent case of Morris v. Doe that was pronounced by the BC...
Aquired Brain Injury: The Story of Six Brain Injury Survivors
"Aquired Brain Injury" was produced by Dean Powers, a Rehabilitation Consultant and Vocational Expert. The video follows a Q&A format, documenting the feedback of six suvivors with varying degrees of brain injury. It looks at the impact of brain injury on these...
Brian Webster to Co-Chair Brain Injury Conference
TLABC Brain Injury Conference 2011: The Anatomy of a Brain Injury Case: Focus on the Frontal Lobes May 13-14, 2011 Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Vancouver, Canada Brain Webster, QC, is co-chairing the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia’s brain injury...
A Day in the Life of a Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor
Christina MacEachern was injured on September 12th, 2005, when her head came into contact with a semi-trailer truck. She suffered severe bi-frontal lobe injuries. A 60-minute video of Christina (post-injury) was produced by Shawn Serdar of Pacific Producers Group and...
“Big City” Lawyer or local counsel … what to do?
Many serious vehicle collisions occur in smaller communities throughout British Columbia and Canada where access to experienced legal resources may not be readily available. Sadly, we often hear, too late, about cases that have been settled for a small percentage of...
