What is the test for determining whether a plaintiff was injured as a result of negligence?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mladjo v Etheridge, 2019 BCSC 950 (CanLII):
The primary test for causation is the “but-for” test: but for the defendant’s negligence, would the plaintiff have suffered the injury? The principles governing causation as it pertains to pre-existing conditions were recently summarized by Adair J. in Rabiei v. Oster, 2019 BCSC 733 [Rabiei]:
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