How is a pre-existing condition relevant to the assessment of damages?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hosak v. Hirst, 2003 BCCA 42 (CanLII):
The way in which a pre-existing condition may be relevant to the assessment of damages, as opposed to the issue of causation, is explained in Athey v. Leonati, supra, under the heading "The Thin Skull and 'Crumbling Skull' Doctrines", commencing at p. 473:
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