Insurance Corporation of British Columbia v. Fredrikson, [1988] 1 SCR 1089

i.c.b.c. v. fredrikson, [1988] 1 S.C.R. 1089

Insurance Corporation of British Columbia                                     Appellant

v.

Neil Darcy Fredrikson                                                                       Respondent

indexed as: insurance corporation of british columbia v. fredrikson

File No.: 20051.

1988: June 3.

Present: Dickson C.J. and Beetz, McIntyre, Lamer and Wilson JJ.

on appeal from the court of appeal for british columbia

                   Insurance ‑‑ Assignments ‑‑ Legal actions ‑‑ Insurance company settling claim for an amount exceeding policy limits contrary to instructions ‑‑ Insured assigning cause of action for failure to defend the action properly ‑‑ Assignment valid.

                   APPEAL from a judgment of the British Columbia Court of Appeal (1986), 3 B.C.L.R. (2d) 145, 24 D.L.R. (4th) 414, [1986] 5 W.W.R. 504, 17 C.C.L.I. 194, [1986] I.L.R. 1‑2100, dismissing an appeal from a judgment of Locke J. (1985), 64 B.C.L.R. 301, [1985] 5 W.W.R. 342, 15 C.C.L.I. 249, [1986] I.L.R. 1‑1991, dismissing a motion to strike. Appeal dismissed.

                   R. B. Harvey, Q.C., and D. G. Cowper, for the appellant.

                   J. J. Camp, Q.C., and Roger McConchie, for the respondent.

                   The judgment of the Court was delivered orally by

1.                       The Chief Justice‑‑It will not be necessary to call upon you Messrs. Camp and McConchie. We adopt in this appeal the reasons of McLaughlin J. of the British Columbia Court of Appeal.

2.                       The appeal is accordingly dismissed.

                   Judgment accordingly.

                   Solicitors for the appellant: Russell & Dumoulin, Vancouver.

                   Solicitors for the respondent: Murphy, Battista, Vancouver.