What are the consequences of a finding that there is only one injury?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Neufeldt v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 2021 BCCA 327 (CanLII):
The third case, Lakatos v. Lakatos, 2017 BCSC 1990, also involved two motor vehicle accidents, in which the initial injuries were aggravated by the subsequent accident; the trial judge found the injuries to be indivisible but did not attribute any loss of future income earning capacity to the first accident. In my view, that result is difficult to reconcile in principle with a finding that there is only one injury.
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