A B.C. Supreme Court judge has awarded the parents of a teenager who was about to graduate high school $327,635 in compensation after he was hit and killed by a driver at a crosswalk in Nanaimo, B.C.
"The court's task is profoundly difficult and inherently hypothetical: what would have been the economic future path of Eric and his parents, had he lived?" Crerar said in the decision.
Justice Crerar noted in the decision that Eric was "by all accounts a generous and hard-working young man" who was "loyal and helpful to his family." The parents argued that Eric's behaviour was directed by the Korean practice of hyodo, which he clearly demonstrated and would have ultimately led him to also support his parents financially as they got older.
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