Award of $1.4 million for reputational damage
Thursday, July 21, 2016 @ 8:00 PM | By John Schofield
In perhaps the largest award ever in Canada exclusively for damage to professional reputation and career, a jury has ordered the Nova Scotia Health Authority to pay Halifax cardiologist Dr. Gabrielle Horne $1.4 million.
The verdict in Horne v. QEII Health Sciences Centre delivered June 17 by a seven-member Nova Scotia Supreme Court jury in Halifax, also included $167,460 for legal fees (see related decision 2016 NSSC 169). The costs covered only the amount that Horne spent from 2002 to 2006, after what was then known...
The verdict in Horne v. QEII Health Sciences Centre delivered June 17 by a seven-member Nova Scotia Supreme Court jury in Halifax, also included $167,460 for legal fees (see related decision 2016 NSSC 169). The costs covered only the amount that Horne spent from 2002 to 2006, after what was then known...
