R-2.2.0.0.01 - Opioid-related Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act

Section 18 Disposition versions

2023-11-02

18. In an action brought on a collective basis, proof of causation between alleged facts, in particular between the defendant’s wrong or failure and the health care costs whose recovery is being sought, or between the exposure to an opioid product and the disease, injury or illness suffered by the recipients of that health care, may be established on the sole basis of statistical information or information derived from epidemiological, sociological or any other relevant studies, including information derived from a sampling.

The same applies to proof of the health care costs whose recovery is being sought in such an action.

2023, c. 25, s. 18.