Is there any case law where a plaintiff has no medical records?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Estable v. New, 2011 BCSC 1556 (CanLII):
Mr. Justice N. Smith noted in Crane v. Lee, 2011 BCSC 898, the “absence of medical records does not, in and of itself, prove absence of injury”. He stated at paras. 25 and 26:
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