Pushor Mitchell partner Paul Mitchell, K.C., recently settled a serious injury claim for an injury client and his son, both located in Northern BC, for over 3 million dollars.
This was the 50th file Paul has resolved for over 1 million dollars.
He has settled numerous files for 3 million, and others for up to 5 million.
Paul practices in serious injury law and has settled numerous severe brain injury files, severe spinal injury files (including paraplegia and quadriplegia), product liability files, and medical malpractice cases.
His clients include a wide range of complex personal injury claims.
Product Liability Cases
Paul has been involved with product liability claims involving:
- the design and manufacture of automobiles (including rollover and roof crush cases),
- trucks
- motorcycles
- drive shafts
- bicycles
- bicycle forks
- motorcycle forks
- seatbelts (seatbelt failure)
- swimming platforms
- boating accidents
- marketing and special event tents
- retail display racks
- stair design
- highway and road design
- water slides
- Sumo wrestling suits
- medical components
- municipal and provincial governments
His product liability cases have involved claims in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
He recently settled a product liability case in BC for $2.4 million, and a product liability case in Alberta for $1.8 million.
Medical Malpractice Claims
Paul has extensive experience with the complex issues in medical malpractice claims. He has successfully settled serious medical malpractice and birth injury cases involving BC and Alberta doctors, clinicians, and hospitals, with settlements ranging from $1 million to over $5 million. He just recently settled a medical malpractice case for a client in BC for $5 million.
His medical malpractice experience includes settling claims for a wide range of injuries, including:
- cerebral palsy
- missed diagnoses in neonate and pediatric care
- birth injuries causing severe brain injuries
- shoulder dystocia
- spinal abscess and cysts
- spinal surgeries
- missed compartment syndrome
- infectious diseases causing quadriplegia, and amputation of limbs
- wrongful deaths
- orthopedic surgeries
- vascular surgeries
- appendix surgeries causing death
- implantation of faulty surgical devices
- septic shock claims causing amputation and brain injuries
- delayed and improper diagnosis of cancer;
- and other serious but treatable conditions.
Paul was a founding director of Brain Trust Canada in 1988 and was on their board for over 25 years. He has presented at numerous brain injury conferences, including the Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference, the Okanagan Brain Injury Conference, and the Trial Lawyers Association of BC. Paul is also a past director of the B.C. Brain Injury Foundation.
If you have any questions regarding serious injury claims, please contact Paul directly for a no obligation free consultation at [email protected] or through his direct line at 250-869-1115.
