How is an award for loss of future earning capacity calculated?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Iampietro v Leung, 2019 BCSC 1750 (CanLII):
Assessing an award for loss of future earning capacity involves a comparison between the likely future earnings of the plaintiff if the accident had not happened and the plaintiff’s likely future earnings after the accident has happened. The assessment is fact-intensive and case-specific: Gregory v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 2011 BCCA 144 at paras. 32-33.
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