How much of a husband's claim for loss of his deceased wife's income has been increased to include the possibility that she would have returned to work?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from McNichol v. Mardell, 1983 CanLII 1015 (AB QB):
The Cardiff Queen’s Bench Division in Regan v. Williamson, [1976] 1 W.L.R. 305, [1976] 2 All E.R. 241, increased the amount of a husband’s claim for the loss of his wife’s income to allow for the probability that had the wife lived she would have returned to work and earned the stated amount. The court found it probable that the husband would have received the pecuniary benefit from his deceased’s wife’s working.
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