Courts across the country continue to be closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and are not expected to fully reopen until later this year. Despite these closures, the Essure Mass Tort Team at Howie, Sacks & Henry LLP has continued to diligently move these important cases forward.
What we are seeing now in our long-term care facilities in Ontario is a direct reflection of the overall systemic deficiencies. While COVID-19 may be new to all of us, outbreaks in long-term care homes are not.
Please make sure to update us of your current situation in regards to Essure.
An update on the current state of Essure.
Melissa Miller explores some of the signs of elder abuse in nursing homes and long term care facilities.
An update on the ongoing Mefloquine Mass Tort.
By way of update, the first ESSURE cases brought by our American counterparts will proceed through trial in February, 2020
Retired Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire has added his name to the growing list of Canadian veterans taking part in a mass tort lawsuit, brought by Howie Sacks & Henry and Waddell Phillips, against the Canadian Government.
Return to Mefloquine homepage. Since January 2019, we have been contacted by over 2,672 individuals. We have been retained by 839 clients, and we have filed claims for almost 200 clients so far, with more claims anticipated to be filed shortly. We continue to thank each and every one of you for your dedication to … Read More
Return to Mefloquine homepage. The following is a summary of the first case conference regarding the Mefloquine Mass Tort. On August 13, 2019, the parties attended the first Case Management Conference before Prothonotary Furlanetto of the Federal Court. The purpose of this attendance was to introduce the cases to the Court and to work out scheduling … Read More