It has been nearly a decade since British Columbia businessman Ron Shore said he was violently attacked and robbed of two valuable sculptures that he had made as part of a charity treasure hunt he’d conceived to raise money for breast cancer research.
A B.C. Supreme Court has now ruled Shore’s legal action against the insurers of the two eagles — one solid gold encrusted with hundreds of diamonds and the other solid silver — should proceed to trial more than six years after a lawsuit was filed, despite what the judge said are “inordinate and inexcusable” delays.
The lawsuit said Shore had intended to sell the golden eagle to finance the $1 million prize for the “final winner” of the treasure hunt.
Shore’s company, Forgotten Treasures International, used the sculptures for marketing the charity event, displaying them at public events, and after one such event in Delta, B.C., on …