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PROFILE
Lorne Folick, a senior partner
at Dolden Wallace Folick LLP, has a practice dedicated exclusively
to insurance defence litigation. Lorne currently acts for
many of Canada's largest commercial and personal lines insurers
as well as several underwriters at Lloyds of London. He has
defended both first and third party claims. Lorne has a wide
range of experience; he is particularly well-regarded in the
fields of liquor liability and is a leader of the firm's complex
personal injury team.
Lorne's trial and appeal judgments include:
o The Court of Appeal's
determination of how to properly calculate income loss:
Kask v. Tam (1996), 21 B.C.L.R. (3d) 21 (C.A.)
o Whether limitation periods
are postponed as a result of post traumatic stress disorder:
Taylor v. Paulson, 2005 BCSC 1249
o Whether a pub is liable
for a patron's later conduct after leaving the pub with
a sober driver: Salm v. Coyle, 2004 BCSC 112
o Whether a restaurant
is held to the same standard as a bar in anticipating violence
by its patrons: Petersen v. Stadnyk, 2003 BCSC 2012
Lorne has spoken at various insurance
seminars on a wide range of insurance issues to brokers, insurers
and risk managers. He has wide experience in the use of alternate
dispute resolution mechanisms to settle claims, including
procedures to "fast track" litigation by mini-trials
to achieve an early and cost effective resolution of claims.
Please
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