What is the purpose of an award for future cost of care?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lakatos v Lakatos, 2017 BCSC 1990 (CanLII):
The broad purpose of an award for future cost of care has been previously described as “… to restore, as best as possible with the monetary award, the injured person to the position he would have been in had the accident not occurred” (Gignac v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 2012 BCCA 351 at para. 29).
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