What is the test for calculating the likelihood that a claimant will lose income as a result of an accident?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Rhodes v. Biggar, 2010 BCSC 762 (CanLII):
... The claimant bears the onus to prove at trial a substantial possibility of a future event leading to an income loss, and the court must then award compensation on an estimation of the chance that the event will occur: [Parypa v. Wickware, 1999 BCCA 88, 169 D.L.R. (4th) 661], at para. 65.
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