How has the "crumbling skull" doctrine been applied in determining future income losses?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Carr v. Simpson, 2010 BCSC 1511 (CanLII):
In Zaruk v. Simpson, 2003 BCSC 1748, Garson J. (as she then was) applied the “crumbling skull” doctrine in the determination of past and future income losses as follows:
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