Is there any case law where future care costs should be reduced because services can or will be provided by others?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Senger v Graham, 2018 BCSC 257 (CanLII):

Whether future care costs should be reduced because services can or will be provided by others was considered by Madam Justice Fisher, as she then was, in O’Connell v. Yung, 2010 BCSC 1764:

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