What is the test for assessing future income loss for a plaintiff?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Healey v Chung, 2019 BCSC 1429 (CanLII):

The goal of assessing the plaintiff’s future income loss is to restore him to the economic position he would have been in but for the accident. See: Rosvold v. Dunlop, 2001 BCCA 1 at paras. 8-11.

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