SCC rules no-fault car accident regime bars negligence suits against third parties
Friday, March 24, 2017 @ 4:39 PM | By Cristin Schmitz
Eight years ago Gilles Gargantiel lost part of his leg to frostbite as he lay injured in a ditch for nearly two days in October because Sûreté du Québec police stopped looking for him two hours after his auto accident — while ignoring the GPS co-ordinates repeatedly being sent to them by his car’s on-board location system. Ten years earlier, Thérèse Godbout’s fractured legs were both amputated as a result of complications she claims were caused by the negligence of the Montreal surgeons who operated on...
