Our Services
"Our firm is survivor-focused: our objectives are to ensure that every opportunity for survivor
rehabilitation is realized to the fullest, and to recover maximum damages for any remaining disability."
Brian Webster, Q.C.
- Introduction
- About our representation
- Empathetic, experienced counsel
- Care for the survivor and family
- Help dealing with finances
- Full support of qualified specialists
- Help in gathering and interpreting information
- Financial recovery
- Serving clients from B.C. and around the world
- Help dealing with ICBC after a car accident
Introduction
Webster & Associates is one of the few Canadian law firms that focuses exclusively on brain and neurological injuries. Our lawyers are recognized leaders in brain injury law.
We provide effective, caring legal representation for survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI) caused by negligence. Many of our cases are related to motor vehicle accidents, but also include injury sustained from falls, sports, or medical malpractice, as well as class action suits for those injured by the fault of others. We can assist those who have been injured in British Columbia or those who have suffered serious injury elsewhere in the world, but are B.C. residents.
We are committed to achieving maximum financial compensation for our clients, enabling survivors of traumatic brain injuries to receive the best rehabilitation and recovery opportunities. We have a history of receiving significant awards for our clients, including over 6 million dollars in compensation for a severely brain injured woman.
We are sensitive to the needs of the survivor's family, recognizing the extraordinary pressures and considerable changes that traumatic brain injuries bring to bear. We work closely with survivor families to assure that family members are able to cope with these changes, and provide assistance in securing counselors, finding support groups, and in engaging the services of other professionals whose care may help ease the strain of establishing a new lifestyle.
Read our ‘client testimonials’ to see what our clients have to say about working with us.
About our representation
"Our considerations are survivor recovery and rehabilitation, and maximum damage awards."
Our experienced team of lawyers and paralegals are skilled in all aspects of the legal process and have considerable experience in the field of brain injury litigation. We have decades of experience in brain injury litigation and have extensive experience dealing with ICBC, managing TBI survivor’s rehabilitation, recovery and finances, and ensuring that survivors’ needs and interests are met.
Our lawyers work with clients, medical and treatment personnel, prepare for trials, and appear in court, while our legal associates manage the day-to-day case management. We coordinate our services with those provided by medical, health care and other professionals to ensure that every client reaches the full potential of his or her recovery. We are active participants in the brain injury community.
To best serve our brain injured clients, our renowned lawyers also have an extensive knowledge of neurology, neuroanatomy, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, rehabilitation medicine and related disciplines. This enables them to understand the complex and unique variables that affect each individual brain injury case.
To meet the team, visit the ‘Biographies’ section of the website.
For more information about legal representation for brain injury survivors see “Six Reasons to promptly retain a lawyer after a family member suffers a severe brain injury”.
Empathetic, experienced counsel
We have years of experience in brain injury litigation and have handled cases for clients from every corner of British Columbia, as well as Alberta, Yukon, the United States, China and Great Britain.
We understand that the time required to bring a TBI case to trial, and that the enormity of the process, can take a toll on both survivor and family. We provide our clients with needed emotional support as we work through the litigation process with them.
It is essential that counsel in traumatic brain injury cases are the best available. Your insurance company will certainly hire the best and toughest lawyers they can find and will provide them with all the resources available to defend against your claim. Make sure your counsel is up to the challenge.
Please contact us if you think we can be of assistance.
Care for the survivor and family
Webster & Associates is proud of its history, the cases it has prosecuted, and the relationship we maintain with our past clients. We have built a firm that is known for its dedication to survivor advocacy, thorough preparation, and tough litigation. Our clients receive unparalleled levels of care and support from our legal team.
We are available to our clients around the clock, from the time of injury through the planning and implementation of rehabilitation, life care and financial planning, and throughout litigation. We are also available after settlement, to assist with other issues that may arise.
We prepare the legal groundwork to assure that the survivor and his or her family are prepared for the changes that lie ahead. Because brain injury affects both family and survivor, we extend the scope of our practice to encompass both. We place special emphasis on communicating with our clients, as well as with their treatment support network.
We ensure that our clients have a clear understanding of the injury, its long-range implications, and the remedies that are available. We also draw on a range of services to forecast future needs of TBI survivors and, using legal channels, we secure the resources required to meet those needs.
Please see our client testimonials for insight into our client care.
Help dealing with finances
Traumatic brain injury survivors and their families are often faced with staggering financial burdens, resulting from medical costs, occupational and economic loss, and the cost of life-long survivor care. We provide counsel and legal assistance to anticipate costs and help arrange to for you to deal with them. We also ensure that the needed support for survivor deficits is met.
Full support of qualified specialists
We focus our resources on effective legal representation to achieve maximum compensation for the survivor’s disabilities. To do this, we work with a group of carefully chosen experts and specialists to thoroughly evaluate and clearly identify the long-term effects of the survivor's brain injury. These experts include neurological medical professionals who provide comprehensive examination, evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and expert testimony. We also work with qualified life care planners and financial experts who evaluate and project expenses and develop financial management plans, which ensure that the necessary mechanisms, such as trust funds, are set up to provide optimum financial protection and security for each survivor.
Help in gathering and interpreting information
To prepare our clients, we gather information about the survivor's medical condition and prognosis. We liaise with the care manager and members of the treatment support network to ensure that our client has all the necessary facts. We review the material with our client to ensure that he or she clearly understands the information presented. We then carefully review the options available and help to weigh the ramifications of various decisions. Finally, we walk our clients through the decision process, so that he or she feel comfortable and secure, knowing that their decisions are based on complete information and are carefully reasoned.
Find out more about how we manage brain injury cases.
Financial recovery
We focus our resources on effective legal representation to achieve maximum compensation for our clients. We have obtained some of the provinces' largest settlements and judgment awards for brain and spinal cord injuries. To find out more, visit the Achievements section of the website.
Serving clients from B.C. and around the world
With offices located in Richmond (only 5 minutes from Vancouver International Airport) and in Victoria, Webster & Associates is well-situated to handle personal injury claims throughout British Columbia and around the world. We travel locally, nationally and internationally to ensure the best possible service is provided. We use our extensive contacts to help clients wherever they are.
We assist those who have been injured in British Columbia or those who have suffered serious injury elsewhere in the world, but are B.C. residents. We regularly represent traumatic brain injury survivors from Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey, Langley, the Fraser Valley, and the rest of the Lower Mainland, as well as from northern British Columbia. We have represented clients in Trail, Castlegar, Kelowna, Kamloops, Vernon, the Okanagan, the Kootenays, Victoria, Nanaimo, Prince George, Merritt, Vanderhoof, Anahiem Lake, Courteney, Comox, Nelson, Fort Nelson, Terrace, Williams Lake and Prince Rupert. We have also represented clients from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, England, the United States and throughout Alberta, Ontario and the Maritimes.
For insight into the services we offer throughout British Columbia read our blog post “Big City” lawyer or local counsel, what to do?
Help dealing with ICBC after a car accident
The impacts of injuries from a motor vehicle collision can be severe and long lasting. An ICBC claim is a complicated and serious legal proceeding. To help you understand ICBC and the claim process, we have created a useful resource:
"ICBC Information Guide: Rehab and Regulations".
We hope you find the guide informative, and we encourage you to seek legal advice.
Speaking about brain injury
Our team is active in the brain injury community. We participate in numerous brain injury conferences and tbi-related events. Brian Webster has presented at the World Congress on Brain injury, to local brain injury organizations and to almost every type of medical and legal group in between. If you think that Brian Webster, Daniel Corrin or Barbara Webster-Evans might be able to assist your group learn more about brain injuries or the important legal issues arising from them, contact us to request a speaker.
For Lawyers
We help other lawyers prosecute their brain injury cases. We have worked with lawyers from around the province and from other countries to help build up a case.
If you are a lawyer that has a brain injured client, a seriously or permanently injured client, or a class action client, we may be able to help. We have a variety of ways to assist, from prosecuting a case for your client to providing background advice. Please call or email Brian Webster or Barbara Webster-Evans to discuss your situation.
Your feedback is appreciated.