Is there any case law requiring damages to be calculated in accordance with actuarial principles?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hillman v. Paterson, 1985 CanLII 402 (BC CA):
I do not consider either the trilogy cases or Lan v. Wu, supra, to require damages to be calculated in accordance with actuarial principles. The former, of course, were all cases where there had been devastating injuries and there was no likelihood of any future earnings which could make a "spread" unreliable. Lan v. Wu, on the other hand, was an appellate response to the judgment under appeal which had been calculated in that way.
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