What is the legal test for calculating the minimum cost of future care for a plaintiff?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lane v. Pedersen, 2014 BCSC 1302 (CanLII):
I appreciate that the cost of future care award is not a precise accounting exercise to determine the strict minimum required by the plaintiff: Strachan v. Reynolds et al, 2006 BCSC 362 at para. 83.
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