How has the BCAA treated a plaintiff's claim for past income loss?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Litt v. Guo, 2015 BCSC 2207 (CanLII):

As in the case of past income loss, hypothetical events (such as how a plaintiff's life would have proceeded but for the accident) or future events are given weight according to their relative likelihood: Parypa v. Wickware, 1999 BCCA 88 at para. 66.

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