What is the test for assessing and calculating income loss in a personal injury case?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Loveys v. Fleetham, 2012 BCSC 358 (CanLII):

The governing principle in assessing and income loss is to restore the plaintiff to the position she would have been in if not injured by the defendant: Lines v. Gordon, 2009 BCCA 106 at para. 185.

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