What is the test for serious impairment in a plaintiff's daily life?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Berfi v. Muthusamy, 2015 ONSC 981 (CanLII):
Regarding the degree of impairment in the plaintiff’s daily life which is necessary in order to be serious, it must go beyond tolerable: Frankfurter v. Gibbons (2004), 2004 CanLII 45880, 74 O.R. (3d) 39 (Div. Ct.), at paras. 22-24.
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