How have courts in BC dealt with past income loss in a motor vehicle accident?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Kowalski v Chepil, 2021 BCSC 1585 (CanLII):
The difficulty is in assessing the value of his loss. As stated by the court in Basra v. Masood, 2019 BCSC 2156 at para. 66, in determining past income loss, the court commonly determines what the plaintiff would have earned but for the injuries, and what the plaintiff actually did earn, and awards the difference between the two amounts. This requires the court to assess a hypothetical outcome, i.e. what the plaintiff would have earned but for his injuries.
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