When determining damages for loss of income that may have been lost due to negligence, is the loss of capacity to earn compensable loss?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Block v Schmitt, 2019 BCSC 1575 (CanLII):
When determining damages related to income that may have been lost due to the defendant’s negligence, the compensable loss is not the actual lost income but the loss of capacity to earn: Ibbitson v. Cooper, 2012 BCCA 249 at para. 18, referring to Rowe v. Bobell Express Ltd., 2005 BCCA 141.
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