Can a plaintiff claim damages for past loss of housekeeping capacity?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Newman v Johal, 2021 BCSC 65 (CanLII):
The plaintiff claims for past loss of housekeeping capacity. In Riley v. Ritsco, 2018 BCCA 366, Mr. Justice Groberman considered the circumstances in which evidence of a loss of ability to undertake domestic services might justify a free-standing pecuniary award, as opposed to the loss being subsumed within the non-pecuniary damages:
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