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Lee (Guardian ad litem of) v. Richmond Hospital Society (c.o.b. Richmond Hospital)Judgment • July 18th, 2007
Determination of consequential issues arising from an award of damages in favour of the plaintiff Lee. Lee also sought to have the judge increase a previous award for present value of future wage loss by taking out any negative contingencies contained in that assessment because the judgment stated that there was no need to adjust for potential negative or positive contingencies. At issue was the cost of future care, tax gross-up, management and committee fees, claim for legal costs gross- up, and costs. Lee's economist used the mortality ratio approach to determine the cost of future care at $2,412.772. The defendant Richmond Hospital's economist, used the excess death rate approach for reduced life expectancy to arrive at a figure of $2,345,350. Lee's economist agreed that this was an accepted method of calculation. The tax gross-up was calculated at $133,692 using the life cer- tain approach and $376,450 using the probabilistic approach. Lee's action against Houston was un-
