What is the test for assessing future employment prospects for a plaintiff who was injured in a motor vehicle accident?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from McCully v Moss, 2019 BCSC 81 (CanLII):
The essential task of the courts is to assess an award by comparing the likely future of the plaintiff’s working life if the accident had not happened with the plaintiff’s likely future working life after the accident: Gregory v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 2011 BCCA 144 at para. 32.
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