People in West Kelowna are hoping to honour the death of an elderly volunteer killed by a pickup truck this summer with a wrongful death act allowing grieving families to sue for loss of life.
In British Columbia, you can only claim for financial losses arising from wrongful death. With children, as abhorrent as this analysis may seem, the death is a financial gain.
If you are unhappy with the current state of the law in British Columbia, do something about it.
2024 Election – David Eby & the BC NDP have failed to keep their promise to modernize BC’s wrongful death laws within their 2020-2024 mandate of government.
John Rustad and the Conservative Party of BC have committed to modernize if elected.