$65,000 Non-Pecuniary Assessment for Chronic Intermittent Soft Tissue Injuries
Reasons for judgement were published today by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, assessing damages for chronic injuries sustained in a vehicle collision.
In today’s case (Juelfs v. McCue) the Plaintiff was involved in a 2014 collision that the Defendants accepted fault for. The crash resulted in a variety of injuries some of which continued to linger to the time of trial and had a poor prognosis for full recovery. In assessing non-pecuniary damages at $60,000 Mr. Justice Riley made the below findings and provided the following reasons: