What is the "earnings approach" used in a personal injury action?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sahota v. Choongh, 2014 BCSC 2415 (CanLII):
The earnings approach involves a form of math-oriented methodology such as: (i) postulating a minimum annual income loss for the plaintiff’s remaining years of work, multiplying the annual projected loss by the number of remaining years and calculating a present value; or (ii) awarding the plaintiff’s entire annual income for a year or two: Pallos, at para. 43; Gilbert v. Bottle, 2011 BCSC 1389, at para. 233.
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