What is the test for loss of income in a motor vehicle accident?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Downey v. Brousseau, 2007 BCSC 149 (CanLII):
On the specific issue of lost income, “loss of the value of work is the substance of the claim – loss of the value of any work the plaintiff would have done but for the accident but now will be unable to do.”: Rowe v. Bobell Express Ltd., 2005 BCCA 141 at (¶31).
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