In a personal injury action, is cost of future care a consideration in damages for future care costs?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Harris v. Zabaras, 2010 BCSC 97 (CanLII):
Where losses in this area cannot be easily quantified or the evidence is lacking it may be preferable to include them in the award of non-pecuniary damages (see for example Papineau v. Dorman, 2008 BCSC 1443 at para. 295) and that is my intention in this case. 9. Cost of Future Care
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