Can recommendations made by a qualified health care professional support a cost of future care claim?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Curtiss v The Corporation of the District of West Vancouver, 2018 BCSC 509 (CanLII):
Recommendations made by a qualified health care professional, other than a physician, can support a cost of future care claim, provided there is an evidentiary foundation in the medical evidence: Gregory v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 2011 BCCA 144 at para. 39
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