Is loss of housekeeping capacity a separate head of damages?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Kristiansen v. Grewal, 2014 BCSC 623 (CanLII):
It has been accepted that loss of housekeeping capacity is a separate head of damages: McTavish v. MacGillivray, 2000 BCCA 164 at para. 63. It is the loss of an asset which an individual had prior to an accident and no longer has.
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