What is the difference between the seriousness of a motor vehicle accident and the severity of the accident?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Dimopoulos v Imad Tafaso Mustafa, 2016 ONSC 429 (CanLII):
The distinction between the two approaches is significant because courts have repeatedly recognized in the context of determining the seriousness of an impairment there is a need to consider “the effect of the injury” on a claimant as opposed to the “type of injury,” see, Malfara v. Vukojevic, supra., at para. 23.
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