{"id":46,"date":"2005-05-30T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2005-05-30T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cavanaghwilliams.com\/blawg\/?p=46"},"modified":"2005-05-30T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2005-05-30T21:14:08","slug":"cpp-benefits-held-deductible-from-income-loss-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"CPP Benefits Held Deductible from Income Loss Damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">In <em>Meloche v. McKenzie,<\/em> a decision of Mr. Justice Terrence Patterson, it was held that CPP disability benefits are deductible from an award of damages for pre-trial income loss in a Bill 59 motor vehicle case. It was also ordered that future CPP benefits were to be held in trust for the tort defendant.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>The rationale for the deduction was that CPP disability benefits were \u201ctied to a recipient&#8217;s inability to engage in the act of gainful employment. In other words, as a result of a loss of earning capacity.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To date, Ontario courts have generally refused to deduct CPP benefits from personal injury damages awards (see, for example, <em>Dub\u00e9 v. Penlon <\/em>(1994), 21 C.C.L.T. (2d) 268 (Ont. Ct. (Gen. Div.)), so this decision will have broad implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Meloche v. McKenzie, a decision of Mr. Justice Terrence Patterson, it was held that CPP disability benefits are deductible from an award of damages for pre-trial income loss in a Bill 59 motor vehicle case. It was also ordered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/?p=46\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto","category-collateral-benefits","category-damages","category-insurance-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}