On an amount of less than $10,000 I guess it would depend with the whole bankruptcy situation. Even if you go bankrupt on the money that is owed it will still be another 5 or so years before it will be cleared off your record and that still is no guarantee that ICBC will reinstate your driver’s license. You definitely should contact your local MLA and push him or her to fight for you to be able to get your license back. Don’t feel ashamed to contact them….. they are there to stand up for our rights and they can really do ALOT when it comes to dealing with any type of government agency or large corporation.

You were suspended for a period of time and have served that time and now they refuse to reinstate your license? I really wonder in my situation if the same is going to happen to me. I never got my license suspended…. but I wonder if when the time comes to re-issue and I have been making monthly payments, every month, on time, every time… that they will jsut be jerks and say “NO”.

With the personal bankruptcy, it will affect your entire credit rating. So I guess it all depends on what your credit rating is like? Do yo own a house? Do you want to with in the next 5 years? Do you have credit cards? Do you have loans? OR…. is it shot, like mine was a few years back and it really wouldn’t make a difference anyway?

Either way I think that personal bankruptcy is a big decision to make. My common law husband filed for bankruptcy a few years before I met him and it made things a little hard for us now, trying to get the things that we want in life. You know what I mean????

This rude collection clerk told him that he won’t get his license back until he pays it all. Nobody can pay back over $900,000.00 and the interest on that amount will take it way over $1 million.

Then she said they can review cases every 6 months and can make a determination if a license can be reinstated. She didn’t say how much a person needs to pay back – a fixed amount of money or a % of the debt.

She was a very snotty bitch and I guess this will continue when getting pestered by a collection agency.

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE THAT HE GOT OFF WITH A DRIVING BAN AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO NOT HAVE KILLED A PERSON WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DRIVE AGAIN BECAUSE THEY CAN’T PAY THE BILL

LANGLEY (NEWS1130) – A family in Langley is hoping the hit and run driver who killed 13-year-old Carley Regan six years ago will not get his license back early.

Paul Wettlaufer will be in Surrey Court Monday to make an application to overturn his 10 year driving ban.

Carley’s aunt Christine Quigley says the family is furious. “I didn’t even know this was possible, that you could even apply to have it [his license] returned.”

Wettlaufer didn’t have a license when he mowed down Carley her sister and her friend; she says Carley’s mom Evie is now reliving what happened. “He hit the children, drove down the road, turned around came back got out of his car, smoking a cigarette, looked at her laying there with blood coming out of her mouth. He then got back in his car and drove away with a flat tire. Is this someone who is remorseful?” Quigley says they see Wettlaufer in town all the time, he’s never said he’s sorry.

The judge may make a decision on Monday or delay it to consider submissions.

I can tell you right now that both claims involving my situation and your son’s were totally blown out of proportion. I was involved in an accident about 9 years ago where I was riding my mountain bike on the side of the road and a driver that was driving on a cross street ran a stop sign and caused me to wipe out on my bike. I ended up in the hospital with a lacerated spleen, internal bleeding, and two fractured bones in my left wrist. I had to spend 1 week in the hospital and was very close to having a major operation to have my spleen removed. I could have died from the internal bleeding if I had not gone to the hospital. Luckily after weeks of bed rest my spleen repaired itself. I then had to spend 3 months resting so that I would not reopen the wound on my spleen.

I hired a lawyer because at first ICBC told me that I did not have a vaild claim. My lawyer told me that they would not get paid unless I received a cash settlement. After 3 years, ICBC settled with me out of court for just over $50,000.00. My lawyer took $30,000.00 of that for his fee.

The point being is that my injuries were far worse than wither the girls involved in your son’s incident and far worse than the driver in my incident and I was only awarded $50,000.00. That shows you right there that there is something wrong with the amount these people were awarded. I don’t know how they can justify the amount they have given to them.

I guess there is no notification because the lawsuit is between the “victim” and ICBC.

I agree that ICBC doesn’t exercise due diligence if they figure they are going to get the money from the uninsured motorist. The replies that were first sent to these two ladies from ICBC basically told them they didn’t have valid claims. Then over 2 years later, there is a valid claim and not a small one at that.

ICBC would stand a better chance of recovering some of their money if they denied more claims or at least made the punitive amounts realistic in terms of the ability to have it paid back.

If you look on the Internet, you see all these lawyers posting their pitches that we will get you top dollar on your injury. The lawyers are laughing because they get a percentage of the award and the victim is laughing because he/she is instantly rich.

The public gets outraged due to rising premiums and it’s all due to ICBC handing out money for unjust claims.

Until we gather up more of a history on phone calls and the bullshit that is handed to us, we will hold off trying to seek justice.

In your situation, was your father even asked by the insurance agent if there were other people driving his car? My agent asks me every year and I do take it because it applies to my situation. Can you even prove that your father was asked this question? Is it only heresay? I don’t know if there is a signed clause on the insurance document that says this option was discussed and declined. If not, there should be because if the agent didn’t offer it, then how could your father know about it.

From what it sounds like to me ICBC settled out of court with these two ladies. If there was a court proceeding, I think your son would have been notified. This is the same thing that happened in my case except there was to be a court proceeding but a year before the set court date ICBC settled out of court with the driver and then pinned the price tag on me.

I too doubt that they investigated the two girls, just like they did not investigate the driver in my case as well. I am sure he was out in his yard mowing the lawn, carrying in his groceries and doing all the normal things that he normally did in the past. And I totally think the reason why they don’t is because they have pinned the money on someone else. They don’t care.

Have you tried to contact you MLA?

Thanks for keeping us posted!

Kade: I’ve spent all afternoon and last night reading the archived reports at the BC Ombudsman site to see if there were similar complaints. There has been nothing dealing with disputing a claim recovery collection. The website says to first register a complaint with the ICBC Fair Practice division.

People try to get as much as they can for personal injury and exaggerate their disabilities. They hire lawyers who get a percentage of the award so they will try to get even more.

We have no transcripts of the trial and didn’t know there was one taking place. The last we heard was two years ago when an ICBC lawyer sent us a copy of a letter telling the two female passengers that they did not have valid claims.

These ladies are NOT disabled due to the accident and are living normal lives while thumbing their noses at my son because they got a huge settlement. I can’t believe a Supreme Court judge ruled that $898,423.56 was justified. Maybe if it was a death claim.

I bet these two ladies were never tailed by a detective.

I was also thinking of the bankruptcy route for my son unless there’s a law that says you can’t declare bankruptcy if there’s a debt owed to a government agency.

My son just finished his Responsible Driver Program and was waiting for an interview with the Sup of MV. Guess that was a waste of $1000. I’ve told him to go ahead with the interview and then he will know where he stands before taking further action.

Your friend and the blog host and my son will never pay off this debt in their lifetime. Their lives are ruined because of greed and lies. They will most likely never have a drivers license again, let alone have a vehicle or get insurance. They are liable to get up to 30% of their wages garnisheed.

I hope your friend gets help from the Ombudsman. We are still gathering up the paperwork.

I know I’m rattling on but I’m hoping that other people will read this blog and see how innocent people are getting screwed.

Hopefully these true events will get the message to N drivers to not drink & drive and to unlicensed drivers to not get behind the wheel.

Please keep us posted and I will update as I find out more.