What are the uplift costs awarded in personal injury cases?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Marathon Capital LLC v 973613 Alberta Ltd., 2017 BCSC 2126 (CanLII):
There are various published decisions in which uplift costs have been awarded. All of the circumstances of each of those cases are unique. Uplift costs are meant to be an indemnity and not a punishment: Walker v. John Doe, 2014 BCSC 294, at para. 64.
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