BC Court of Appeal tosses ICBC appeal of 15000 per person for privacy breach

pn n n concatei18ntsearchvoicerecognitionretryn ppeconfigsaAriaclosedTextppVANCOUVER The BC Court of Appeal has dismissed a bid by the Insurance Corporation of BC to reduce damages awarded in a classaction lawsuit for privacy violations by a former employee that set off arson and shooting attacksppThe court ruled Wednesday that 15000 per class member awarded by the lower court was appropriate rejecting the insurance companys claim that the privacy breaches at issue only warranted nominal damages of 500 eachppThe lawsuit stemmed from a former employee named Candy Rheaume who accessed customer licence plate information and sold it to criminals who used it to carry out arson and shooting attacks on homes and vehicles owned by 13 peopleppThe Court of Appeal panel ruled that the hardfought litigation did warrant damages to compensate class members for injuries to their privacy and for the seriousness of ICBCs misconductppThe ruling says the insurance corporation objected to the 15000 amount because consequential harm to individual class members has yet to be proven and is still before the court to decideppThe ruling says Rheaume got information on 78 policy holders selling information on 45 of them to criminals and earlier rulings in the case say those targeted in the arson and shooting attacks were associated with the Justice Institute of British ColumbiappThis report by The Canadian Press was first published April 23 2025ppThe Canadian PressppProsecutors made the claim during opening statements of Sean Combs trialppVirginia Giuffre received an estimated 20 million in an outofcourt settlement with the royal in 2022ppDaniel Phillip who says Cassie Ventura paid him for sex testified that Sean Combs was in the room at the timeppThe 7yearold and 9yearold boys took turns handling the firearm in Albuquerque New Mexico before one of them later pointed it at policeppA defence lawyer representing one of five hockey players on trial for sexual assault is suggesting the complainant was the one who took the reins during a sexual encounter with his clientppRyan Last died by suicide after being blackmailed over explicit photos he sent by textppDixie Villa received the maximum sentence for manslaughter following the February 2019 death of Abigail Lobisch per local media reportsppEXCLUSIVE Hours before opening statements in Sean Diddy Combss sextrafficking trial are set to start before a yettobeseated jury the defense is poised to take advantage of a selfwound of sorts by the prosecution As of Sunday night the US Attorneys office for the Southern District of New York has yet to reestablish contact with ppSean Diddy Combs sex trafficking trial escalated on Monday afternoon as Daniel Phillip a 41yearold male escort was called to the witness stand In an extremely graphic testimony that lasted about an hour Phillip was questioned by lead prosecutor Maurene Comey about his sexual encounters with Combs and his thengirlfriend Casandra Cassie Ventura from around ppDNA samples led to the identification of the unknown victim as Larry Eugene Parks whose body was found in July 1980 along Oregons Interstate 5ppMark Hogarth told passersby he was helping the woman but was actually molesting her a court hearsppMolly and Thomas Marten were convicted of killing Jason Corbett but were later freedppA 45yearold man who fatally stabbed his mother and a neighbour last year has been found not criminally responsible for his actionsA Quebec Superior Court judge accepted a joint recommendation by both the defence and prosecution on Monday and ordered Fabio Puglisi detained at Montreals PhilippePinel Institute Puglisi had been facing two seconddegree murder charges for stabbing his mother Élisabetta PuglisiCaucci 68 and his neighbour Manon Blanchard 53 to death in VaudreuilDorion QppYork Regional Police will be stepping up community patrols and awareness campaigns after two separate hate incidents in Vaughan over the last weekppBATON ROUGE La AP As 18yearold Bobby Gumpright rode his bike home from his bartending job in New Orleans in 1999 he began to concoct a story about why he didnt have any money In the throes of addiction and not wanting to admit he had spent his paycheck on drugs Gumpright lied to his father and said a Black man had robbed him at gunpointppThe suspect images were captured by the vehicles video camerappThe intense fire reportedly at around 2 am local time on Sunday May 11ppNEW YORK AP Federal prosecutors began trying to prove Monday that Sean Diddy Combs turned his hiphop conglomerate into a racketeering enterprise that forced women to satisfy his sexual desires for two decadesppThe highly anticipated trial for Sean Diddy Combs on a slew of sex crime allegations began on Monday May 12ppThe missing and murder cases of Baylee Despot Micah Holsonbake and James Kulstad are being explored in the new Investigation Discovery docuseries The Bakersfield 3 A Tale of Murder and Motherhoodp