What are the implications of a defendant's behaviour towards a plaintiff in a personal injury claim?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Andrews v Shelemey, 2021 BCSC 2221 (CanLII):
Aggravated damages are intended to take into account intangible injuries such as distress and humiliation that may have been caused by a defendant’s behaviour: Vorvis v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 1989 CanLII 93 (SCC), [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1085 at 1099 [Vorvis].
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