What is the test for a plaintiff to prove but for the Accident?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lock v Floreani, 2017 BCSC 1313 (CanLII):
The plaintiff must prove, but for the Accident, what she would have earned, not on a balance of probabilities, but on an assessment of damages based on a consideration of hypothetical events that constitute a real and substantial possibility. The relative weight of such hypothetical events is to be assessed according to their relative likelihood: Grewal v. Naumann, 2017 BCCA 158 at paras. 44-49.
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