What are the legal principles regarding failure to mitigate in the context of a claim for personal injuries?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Dulay v Lu, 2020 BCSC 1989 (CanLII):

I adopt my discussion of the legal principles regarding failure to mitigate in the context of a claim for personal injuries as set out in Forghani-Esfahani v. Lester, 2019 BCSC 332:

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