Abstract
The law of damages abounds with cases dealing with the collateral source rule. This rule is applicable to instances where the victim of a damagecausing event, despite suing the wrongdoer or his or her insurer for damages, receives a benefit from a third party (Mukheibir ‘Road Accident Fund v Timis – child support grants is not res inter alios acta’ 2011 SALJ 246; see in general Potgieter, Steynberg & Floyd Visser & Potgieter’s Law of Damages (2012) 229-273). However, despite the various case law and commentary in literature on the subject, this concept remains unburdened by clarity. This is particularly true as far as the interpretation and intersection between the application of the rule and social security benefits.
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