What is sufficient that a treatment that might assist the symptoms but rather than reduce the symptoms?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Torchia v. Siegrist, 2015 BCSC 57 (CanLII):

It is not sufficient that the treatment that might assist the symptoms, but rather, would have reduced the symptoms: Gregory v. Insurance Corp. of British Columbia, 2011 BCCA 144 at para. 56.

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