What is the test for justified future care costs?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Bains v. Brar, 2013 BCSC 1828 (CanLII):
Future care costs must be justified as reasonable both in the sense of being medically justified and in the sense of being expenses that the plaintiff will, on the evidence, be likely to incur. In Izony v. Weidlich, 2006 BCSC 1315, the court stated (at paras. 73-74):
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