Does post-incident drug abuse interfere with recovery?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lewis v Gibson, 2018 BCSC 1713 (CanLII):
In Smaill v. Williams, 2010 BCSC 73, the plaintiff's post-incident drug abuse interfered with his recovery. This amounted to a failure to mitigate, and the total damage award was reduced by 20%:
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