Is a defendant liable for damages that are not related to crumbling skull injuries?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Harris v Gill, 2019 BCSC 1665 (CanLII):
The defendant is not liable for damages that were not caused by the injury: Brewster v. Li, 2013 BCSC 774 at para. 78 [Brewster]. Under the crumbling skull doctrine, a defendant “need not compensate the plaintiff for any debilitating effects of the pre-existing condition which the plaintiff would have experienced anyway”: Athey at para. 35.
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