An award for future cost of care is based upon a prediction of the medical and non-medical services that will likely be in the plaintiff's best interests. As stated in Krangle v. Brisco, 2002 SCC 9, 1 S.C.R. 205: "No one knows the future. Yet the rule that damages must be assessed once and for all at the time of trial (subject to modification on appeal) requires courts to peer into the future and fix the damages for future care as best they can": at para. 21.
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