What is the threshold for serious impairment in a motor vehicle accident?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hartwick v. Simser, 2004 CanLII 34512 (ON SC):
Finally, where usual activity including employment continues in the presence of chronic pain, but substantially interferes with one’s pre-accident combined capacity for work and pleasurable activity, including meaningful and regular socialization and capacity for household chores, this will constitute “serious” impairment: see Frankfurter v. Gibbons, [2003] O.J. No. 762 (S.C.J.). Threshold Analysis for Karen The Lay Evidence
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