What is the test for determining whether a plaintiff’s employment prospects would have been better if they had not been injured in a motor vehicle accident?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Aselstyne v Stobbart, 2021 BCSC 26 (CanLII):

The essential task of the court is to compare the likely future of the plaintiff’s working life if the accident had not happened with the plaintiff’s likely working life after the accident: Gregory v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 2011 BCCA 144 at para. 32.

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