What is the standard of medical evidence in a personal injury case?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Bond v Deeb, 2013 CanLII 54599 (ON SCSM):
8. In situations where a party seeks to explain her failure to comply with a court order due to medical causes, the court will often look for a certain quality of medical evidence and may expect to see firsthand medical evidence: Szegedi Estate v. Horvath, [2005] O.J. No. 3248 (S.C.J.), at para. 17.
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