Is a caregiver liable for an accident involving a child passenger?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Walkus v. Walkus, 2015 BCSC 307 (CanLII):
Further, the claimant argues that while a caregiver may share some responsibility for an accident involving a child passenger, the driver cannot escape liability by blaming the parent: Galaske v. O’Donnell, 1994 CanLII 128 (SCC), [1994] 1 S.C.R. 670 at 689.
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