What authorities respect the effect of a person's age on a damage award?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Daniels v. Westfair Foods Ltd., 2004 ABQB 746 (CanLII):
The parties produced different authorities respecting the effect of a person’s age on a damage award. The court in Forward v. Flaman, 2000 ABQB 82 at para. 30 adopted the view that injury to older people is in a sense more profound than injury to younger people.
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