What are the most common types of aggravated damages in a personal injury case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sahota v. Director of the Residential Tenancy Branch, 2010 BCSC 750 (CanLII):
Aggravated damages are a compensatory award that takes account of intangible injuries to the plaintiff, such as distress and humiliation, caused by a defendant’s insulting behaviour. Aggravated damages are to compensate the plaintiff for such things as anguish, grief, humiliation, wounded pride, and damaged self-confidence or self-esteem suffered as a result of the defendant’s conduct: Vorvis v. ICBC, 1989 CanLII 93 (SCC), [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1085.
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