Does a plaintiff have to prove that they suffered from nervous shock?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Kotai v. Queen of the North (Ship), 2009 BCSC 1405 (CanLII):
The central issue in Page v. Smith was whether in all "nervous shock” cases the plaintiff must prove that injury by “nervous shock” was reasonably foreseeable, or whether if the plaintiff was involved in an accident only reasonable foreseeability of physical injury must be shown.
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