What is the test for using actuarial calculations to assess future pecuniary losses?
New Brunswick, Canada
The following excerpt is from Basque v. The City of Saint John, 2002 NBQB 131 (CanLII):
Actuarial calculations should be used to assess future pecuniary losses "whenever the underlying assumptions are proven to the Courts satisfaction". See: Scott v. Pention, supra, at ¶33 and Boucher v. Doiron, supra, at ¶ 48.
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