By the time Rene Gauthier was violently knocked off his motorcycle in 2013, the surfboard and clothing company he’d built from the ground up was already deep in the red.
Last week, the co-founder of Sitka Surfboard was awarded nearly $1 million in compensation for the injuries he suffered in the 2013 crash in downtown Victoria.
As B.C. Supreme Court Justice Warren Milman wrote in his judgment, the aftermath of that collision is about more than just Gauthier’s physical wounds.
“This case is about what he lost in that moment,” Milman wrote.
‘Something else was missing’
Gauthier, a personal friend of Lululemon founder Chip Wilson, “had achieved more by the age of 32 than many people achieve in an entire lifetime,”…
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