Law360 Canada ( July 30, 2021, 5:42 AM EDT) -- Appeal by the defendants from trial decision finding them liable in negligence and from the damages awarded resulting from the loss of the respondents’ daughter. The respondents’ daughter resided in the basement of a rooming house owned by the appellants. Their daughter died from severe injuries suffered in a fire in the rooming house. She could not escape because the windows were barred, and the only exit to the apartment was engulfed in flames and smoke. The interior access stairway connecting the basement apartment to the main rooming house was blocked off. The jury found the appellants fell below the standard of care of a reasonable landlord and found them responsible for the death. The jury awarded the respondents each $250,000 for loss of care, guidance and companionship, $250,000 for mental distress, $174,800 for future costs of care for the father and $151,200 for future care costs of the mother....