Class-Action Lawsuit Over COVID-19 Outbreaks in Quebec Long-Term Care Is Approved

Class-Action Lawsuit Over COVID-19 Outbreaks in Quebec Long-Term Care Is Approved
Flowers are shown outside Maison Herron, a long-term care home in the Montreal suburb of Dorval on April 12, 2020. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes
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A judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit against the Quebec government on behalf of all residents of public long-term care homes that experienced major COVID-19 outbreaks during the pandemic’s first year.

The lawsuit in Superior Court alleges that the province’s response to the first two waves of COVID-19 was improvised and that a pre-existing pandemic plan was ignored until it was too late.