What is the range of damages available to a plaintiff in a personal injury action?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mann v. Bains et al., 2006 BCSC 837 (CanLII):
As mentioned above, a plaintiff is entitled to recover damages for the losses he has suffered but the extent of those losses may depend on whether he has taken reasonable steps to avoid their unreasonable accumulation: Michaels v. Red Deer College (1975), 1975 CanLII 15 (SCC), [1976] 2 S.C.R. 324 at 330-31, 57 D.L.R. (3d) 386, 5 N.R. 99.
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