Can a defendant be held responsible for all the legal fees and disbursements incurred by insured in pursuit of litigation?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Tanious v. The Empire Life Insurance Company, 2017 BCSC 85 (CanLII):
In my view, SGI v. Wilson effectively holds that that a defendant may be held responsible for all the legal fees and disbursements the insured incurred in pursuit of litigation as foreseeable damages if litigation was their only recourse.
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