Is evidence of ongoing pain sufficient to ground a substantial possibility that a plaintiff’s pain will adversely affect her future ability to work?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Gabor v. Boilard, 2015 BCSC 1724 (CanLII):
Evidence of ongoing pain may be sufficient to ground a substantial possibility that a plaintiff’s pain will adversely affect her future ability to work, even where, at the time of trial, the plaintiff has not missed work due to the injury: Clark v. Kouba, 2014 BCCA 50 at para. 33.
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