The chief justice of the Court of King's Bench has approved a $17 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit that alleged decades of physical and sexual abuse of psychiatric patients at the Restigouche Hospital Centre in northern New Brunswick.
A judge will decide by the end of October whether to approve a proposed $17-million class-action lawsuit settlement in a case that alleged decades of patient mistreatment at New Brunswick's only psychiatric hospital.
A proposed $17-million settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit alleging decades of negligence and mistreatment of psychiatric patients at the Restigouche Hospital Centre in northern New Brunswick, according to lawyers for the plaintiffs.
New Brunswick's Court of Appeal won't hear a challenge of a judge's decision to allow a major class action lawsuit alleging decades of negligence and mistreatment at the Restigouche Hospital Centre to proceed.
The New Brunswick government and Vitalité Health Network are seeking to appeal a judge's decision last month certifying a class action lawsuit alleging decades of mistreatment at the Restigouche Hospital Centre.