Is a plaintiff entitled to an award for loss of future earning capacity?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mattson v Spady, 2019 BCSC 1144 (CanLII):
An award for loss of future earning capacity is appropriate where the plaintiff has established a “real and substantial possibility of a future event leading to an income loss”: Perren v. Lalari, 2010 BCCA 140 at para. 32 [Perren]. The loss is to be assessed based on the probability of the occurrence of future events.
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