Is a permanent brain injury qualitatively different from a concussion?

Alberta, Canada


The following excerpt is from Hicke v Drefko, 2017 ABQB 795 (CanLII):

In Gayton v. Lacasse, 2010 ABCA 123, the court commented that: If a permanent brain injury is qualitatively different from a concussion, that it does not matter when a cause of action arose with respect to the concussion. What is important is when the appellant first knew, or ought to have known, that she had a permanent brain injury.

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