Is a jury’s appreciation of pain, suffering and loss of amenities wrong if the award does not fall within the range of awards for non-pecuniary damages?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Dilello v. Montgomery, 2005 BCCA 56 (CanLII):
Non-pecuniary awards are inherently arbitrary and, because of this, the jury members’ subjective appreciation of the plaintiff’s pain, suffering and loss of amenities is not necessarily wrong if the award does not fall into the range of awards that have been made by trial judges in similar cases. As Mr. Justice Smith noted in Boyd v. Harris, supra:
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