What authorities have said about limiting recovery in a motor vehicle accident?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Rhodes Estate v. Canadian National Railway, 1990 CanLII 5401 (BC CA):
The authorities to which he referred included Dulieu v. White. Although I will not quote it, the last paragraph of his judgment makes clear that he was limiting recovery to reasonable fear causing physical injury.
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