What is the appropriate approach for determining future costs of medication for a plaintiff?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Clayton v Barefoot, 2018 BCSC 239 (CanLII):
In my view, the appropriate approach is the one taken by Fisher J. (as she then was) in Chappell v. Loyie, 2016 BCSC 1722 at para. 276, in which Her Ladyship took the plaintiff’s extended medical benefits into consideration when determining a reasonable award for future costs of medication: Medications
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