Al0 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 20, 2002

ICBC files an appeal
of Lee suit decision

By SARAH A.
ZIMMERMAN
IT MAY BE A long time
before Gordon and Nancy
Lee see any money from
ICBC despite a jury's re-
cent decision they should
receive $100,000.
The. provincial crown
corporation has now filed

an appeal of the decision. .

The award came from a
lawsuit launched by the
Lees after their 17-year-old
daughter Laura was killed
in avcar crash June 12,
1999,

The Lees sued Aaron
Douglas, the driver of the
speeding vehicle involved
in a police chase which
ran through the intersec-
tion of. Hwy 16 and Hwy
37, slamming into the ve-
hicle ‘carrying Laura and
her Belgian exchange stu-
dent: boyfriend, Renaud
Fontaine, 19,

When Douglas did nat
respond to the negligent
death suit, the way was
opened up under the pro-
vincial Family Compensa-
tion Act for ICBC to be-
come the defendant.

‘An ‘eight-member jury
decided Oct. 18 that the
Lees. were entitled to
$100,000 — the largest
award of its kind in Cana-
dian history,

ICBC had 30 days to
appeal the decision — the
nelice of appeal was filed
Nov. 13, just two working
days before the appeal
period was due to expire,
says the Lees’ lawyer, Jim
Hansen.

“My instructions are to

A LOCAL jury's decision that ICBC should pay
$100,000 arising from the 1999 traffic accident
death of Laura Lee is being appealed, She's
shown here with Renaud Fontaine, a Rotary ex-
change sludent who died in the same accident.

‘peal will indeed go
through remains to be
seen.

“At this point we’ re re-
viewing our options and
with respect to protecting
our right of appeal an ap-
peal has been put
forward,” said Geoff But-

ler, [CBC operations man-—

ager for Terrace.

The Lees were hoping
the award would set a pre-
cedent for other families
who have lost loved ones
in similar situations.

“We went to court fair
and square — it was pretty

‘ICBC just happens to be
-the one we have to go for

what we agreed to before.”
ICBC rejected an Oct. 7
offer by the Lees to setile
out of court for $100,000.
Gordon Lee says the
money won’t make losing
their daughter any easier.
He and Nancy want to
see changes made ta the
Family Compensation Act
s0 people who’ve last
loved ones are compensa-
ted for the grief they suffer.
“T don’t blame ICBC -

and if we don’t go for the
money nothing will

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said.
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hard on us to go to court,”
said Gordon Lee. “We had
a jury of our peers and this
is what they agreed to and

change,” said Gordon Lee.

“Somebody has to stand
up for something some
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