CANADA TOBACCO COMPANY HEALTHCARE LIABILITY CASE
October 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIECANADIAN tobacco firms have suffered potentially a monumental blow, as Canada's highest court has sided with the British Columbia provincial government, giving it the green light to sue manufacturers to recover billions of dollars in health care costs.The 9-0 Supreme Court judgment upholds provincial legislation, called the Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, passed in 1998. It allows the BC government to seek damages to cover public health care costs dating back 50 years as well as future costs for illnesses linked to tobacco ...
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