What is the test for finding that a motor vehicle accident caused a plaintiff mental injury?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mofazeli v Johnson, 2021 BCSC 1061 (CanLII):
I do not find that the accident caused the plaintiff mental injury. The evidence does not show “a serious and prolonged disruption that transcended ordinary emotional upset or distress”: Saadati v. Moorhead, 2017 SCC 28 at para. 40.
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