About the Mass Tort and Compensation

The claims allege that the management of the Good Samaritan Society was negligent, and ill prepared to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. 

The goal is to get compensation for families, but also to bring change to the Southgate Care Centre, and other long term care centres across the country.

Order for Discontinuance of Class Action in Alberta

Litigation Plan

Updates (Related to the Mass Tort)

May 2025:

We write to provide you with a further update beyond the update provided in June 2024. We have issued, served, and filed the individual claims. The examinations are scheduled to take place on May 26^th, 27^th and 30^th, 2025. At the examinations, we will have an opportunity to question a representative of the Defendant about the issues in this proceeding. We will provide another update once the examinations are completed.

June 2024:

We write to provide you with a further update beyond the update provided in December 2023. We have issued, served, and filed the individual claims. We are now working toward obtaining all documents to support any individual expense claims. Please let us know if you have not been contacted yet and/or have not provided our firm with your expense claims. We will be providing another update following our next court appearance.

December 2023:

We write to provide you with a further update beyond the update provided in July 2023. We have issued, served, and filed the individual claims. We are now working toward obtaining all documents to support any individual expense claims. Please let us know if you have not been contacted yet and/or have not provided our firm with your expense claims. We will be providing another update following our next court appearance.

September 2023:

We write to provide you with a further update beyond the update provided in July. We have received an order for the discontinuance of the class action we commenced in Alberta. As such, we are now able to proceed with a group of individual actions. Further, the parties have agreed on a timetable to move the litigation forward. To date, all our claims have been drafted and served on the Defendant. We are currently working toward obtaining all documents to support any individual expense claims. Please let us know if you have not been contacted yet and/or have not provided our firm with your expense claims.

July 2023:

We write to provide you with a further update beyond the update provided in March 2023. We have issued, served, and filed the individual claims. We are now working toward obtaining all documents to support any individual expense claims. Please let us know if you have not been contacted yet and/or have not provided our firm with your expense claims. We will be providing another update following our first court appearance.

March 2023:

We write to provide you with a further update beyond the update provided in December. We have issued, served, and filed the individual claims. We are now working toward obtaining all documents to support any individual expense claims. Please let us know if you have not been contacted yet and/or have not provided our firm with your expense claims. We will provide a further update once our first court date has been scheduled.

December 2022:

We write to provide you with a further update beyond the update provided in August. We have issued, served, and filed the individual claims. We will provide a further update once our first court date has been scheduled.

August 2022:

Further to our April update, we write to provide you with a further update. We have issued, served and filed the individual claims. We will provide a further update once our first court date has been scheduled.

April 2022:

We write to provide you with a further update to our December update. Further to our last update, we have now issued, served and filed the individual claims. We will provide a further update once our first court date has been scheduled.

December 2021:

We write to provide you with a further update to our August update. As mentioned in our last update, we  are currently working on drafting individual claims. Once the claims are finalized, they will be issued, served and filed. We will provide another update at that point in time.

August 2021:

We write to provide you with a further update to our June 9th update. As mentioned in our last update, we are currently working on drafting individual claims. Once the claims are finalized, they will be issued, served and filed. We will provide another update at that point in time.

June 2021:

We are currently working on drafting individual claims. Once the claims are finalized, they will be issued, served and filed. We will provide a further update at that point in time. We are continuing to sign up new clients on a consistent basis