How is a loss of future income earning capacity quantified?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Payne v. Ufimzeff, 2013 BCSC 551 (CanLII):

Garson J.A. considered the issue of entitlement to and quantification of an award of damages for loss of future income earning capacity in Perren v. Lalari, 2010 BCCA 140. At paragraph 32 she wrote:

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