What is determinate liability in the context of a claim?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sigurdson et al v. Norbord Inc. et al., 2021 ONSC 5193 (CanLII):
Indeterminate liability can arise in three forms: (a) Value indeterminacy (liability in an indeterminate amount); (b) Temporal indeterminacy (liability for an indeterminate time); and (c) Claimant indeterminacy (liability to an indeterminate class). See: Deloitte v. Livent, at para. 43.
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