What is the test for determining whether a plaintiff’s future will be better if they are injured in a motor vehicle accident?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Wahid v. Caporusso, 2016 BCSC 1743 (CanLII):
The court must look at the “likely future of the plaintiff if the accident had not happened [and] the plaintiff’s likely future after the accident has happened”: Rosvold v. Dunlop, 2001 BCCA 1 at para. 11, the court held:
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