{"id":51,"date":"2005-05-09T16:20:54","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T21:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cavanaghwilliams.com\/blawg\/?p=51"},"modified":"2005-05-09T16:20:54","modified_gmt":"2005-05-09T21:20:54","slug":"back-injury-pierces-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Back Injury Pierces Threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: justify\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canlii.org\/on\/cas\/onsc\/2005\/2005onsc13588.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lahay v. Henderson<\/a><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/em><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">arose out of an MVA which left the plaintiff with soft tissue injuries, principally to his back. Liability was admitted.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: justify\">The trial judge ruled that the plaintiff, a manual labourer before the accident, would never be able to return to that sort of work. He found that the plaintiff\u2019s injuries met the threshold and he assessed general damages at $90,000 before the <em>Insurance Act <\/em>deductible. Future income loss was assessed at $265,213, based on a finding that the plaintiff had residual earning capacity of $25,000 per annum. In addition, the trial judge applied to the future income loss a contingency reduction of 30%, principally becuase of various pre-existing health problems from which the plaintiff had suffered.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: justify\">The trial judge was Mr. Justice Thomas M. Wood, of the Superior Court\u2019s Family Court Branch. (Judges who are members of the Family Court Branch are not restricted to hearing family law cases.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: justify\">The decision is instructive because it contains a detailed review of the evidence, medical and otherwise, which led to the court\u2019s conclusions. In this case, it is clear that the plaintiff\u2019s limited education and lack of other skills contributed strongly to Justice Wood\u2019s findings with respect to the income loss claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahay v. Henderson arose out of an MVA which left the plaintiff with soft tissue injuries, principally to his back. Liability was admitted. The trial judge ruled that the plaintiff, a manual labourer before the accident, would never be able &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/?p=51\">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":[26,12,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto","category-insurance-news","category-threshold"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}