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Lorne P.S. Folick
Direct Line: 604 891-0352
Fax: 604 689-3777
Email: lfolick@dolden.com
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:
- 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.)
- Whether limitation periods are postponed as a result of post traumatic stress disorder: Taylor v. Paulson, 2005 BCSC 1249
- 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
- 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.
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