TYPES OF DAMAGES - General damages - Categories of - Loss of opportunity

Law360 Canada ( March 21, 2018, 8:50 AM EDT) -- Appeal by Horne, and cross-appeal by the Capital District Health Authority (CDHA), from the decision in Horne’s claim for damages for breach of contract and bad faith causing damage to her career as a cardiologist. Horne worked for a hospital operated by the CDHA, using data from patients of the hospital’s Heart Function Clinic. Horne and the Clinic’s director did not get along. In October 2002, the director convinced the CDHA to vary Horne’s hospital privileges to restrict her enrollment of Clinic patients, causing her research to founder. The CDHA considered the matter of Horne’s privileges over the next four years. In September 2006, its board of directors decided that the variation was not warranted, and restored Horne’s privileges to their status prior to October 2002. Horne successfully sued the CDHA for administrative bad faith, achieving an award of $1.4 million. Her contract claim was held to be unsustainable and was taken from the jury, and the judge ruled that the losses Horne sustained to her research career were encompassed by the damage award for loss of reputation, and were not a separate head of damages....
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