What is the impact of future care costs on a plaintiff?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Watt v Vick, 2021 BCSC 218 (CanLII):
Future care costs awards should be adjusted for contingencies. These may be positive or negative and will depend on the particular facts of the case: Peters v. Ortner, 2013 BCSC 1861 at para. 144.
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