How are future income loss awards calculated based on a single year salary?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Saidy v Louzado, 2019 BCSC 281 (CanLII):

In Manky v. Scheepers, 2017 BCSC 1870, Justice Kent noted that awards for future income loss are commonly assessed by using one, two, or even three years salary.

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