3FBDamages for treatment, care and support needs: catastrophic injury

##### 3FB. Damages for treatment, care and support needs: catastrophic injury treatment, care and support needs has the meaning given in the MVWA(CI) Act section 6. (2) Subsection (3) applies to the awarding of damages in respect of catastrophic injury to a person directly caused by, or by the driving of, a motor vehicle to the extent that the damages relate to any treatment, care and support needs of the person that have arisen or will or may arise in the future. (3) In determining the amount of damages, no deduction is to be made for any contributory negligence of the person in relation to the catastrophic injury to which the damages relate. (4) If subsection (3) applies a court awarding damages to a person is to award them in accordance with that subsection. [Section 3FB inserted: No. 8 of 2016 s. 46; amended: No. 21 of 2023 s. 682.]