What are the most common types of aggravated damages awarded in personal injury cases?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Greaves v. Grace, 2008 BCSC 1529 (CanLII):
Aggravated damages are a subset of non-pecuniary damages usually awarded in cases involving some harm that has fright, misery and humiliation associated with it: Iachetta v. Ioannone, 2005 BCSC 566, Vorvis v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 1989 CanLII 93 (SCC), [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1085.
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