What is the difference between the parties in a personal injury settlement?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Heeley v. Byers, 2014 ONSC 5139 (CanLII):
Not surprisingly, each party considers itself successful in their own mind with respect to each of the settled issues. Grace J. in Page v. Desabrais[7] aptly described this conundrum as follows: My point is simply this: cases are resolved in whole or in part for many reasons. Legal, economic, social, political, emotional, physical or other factors may be wholly or partly at play. Any attempt to determine a ‘winner’ or ‘loser’ in a settlement is, in most cases, complex if not impossible.
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