With Regards to Covid-19 Liability & LawsuitsI think this week is the final hearings regarding the action brought forward by Thomas Rogers to certify the class action agains Sienna.
After this week, the Judge will decide whether to certify the action as a class action and move forward with legal proceedings.
Thing is, this may all be for not as long as Sienna proves they acted in good faith and "not" with gross negligence during Covid-19 pandemic.
I personally think it's a shame this is actually being heard. Covid-19 was an extraordinary event that no government, healthcare agency or professionals expected or were prepared for. How can anything, even with the strictest guidelines and measures being adhered to, have been avoided?
I feel for the families effected by Covid-19 who lost loved ones, I am one, but suing a healtcare facility for what happened during the Covid-19 will prove a useless exercise of injustice.
The only ones that profit from a class action are not those affected, but the Law Firm bringing it forward.
Here's something important investors should read and know:
"On November 20, 2020, the Government of Ontario enacted the Supporting Ontario's Recovery Act (the "Recovery Act"). The Recovery Act provides civil liability protection to organizations that made a good faith effort to follow public health guidance and COVID-19 related laws, and did not act with gross negligence. The Recovery Act also deems existing civil proceedings related to COVID-19 exposure to be dismissed without costs and will bar future proceedings from being brought, as long as the defendant acted in good faith and not with gross negligence"