Is a plaintiff entitled to a pecuniary award for failing to pay for household chores due to injury?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Wang v Johal, 2019 BCSC 1036 (CanLII):
Where a plaintiff suffers an injury which would make a reasonable person in their circumstances unable to perform usual and necessary household work – that is where the plaintiff has suffered a loss of capacity – that loss may be compensated by way of a pecuniary award: Kim v. Lin, 2018 BCCA 77 at para. 33.
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