How have courts in BC considered the concept of using a temporal connection between an event and an injury to establish causation?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ma. v. Haniak, 2017 BCSC 549 (CanLII):
Making diagnoses from temporal connections alone can be problematic because the temporal connection between the trauma and the symptom is not always reliable. Mr. Justice Ehrcke addressed the issue of relying on a temporal connection between an event and an injury to establish causation in White v. Stonestreet, 2006 BCSC 801:
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