Opioid Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Amendment Act
Amended
- Opioid Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, SA 2019 cO-8.5 1
Summary
The Opioid Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Amendment Act adds consultants to manufacturers and wholesalers of opioid products as a class of people against whom the government of Alberta may a pursue a direct and distinct cause of action to recover the cost of health care benefits caused or contributed to by an opioid-related wrong.
The Act allows for the Crown to recover the cost of health care benefits incurred with respect to particular individual insured persons or on an aggregate basis. The Act also outlines the evidence which is admissible to establish causation and quantify damages or the cost of health care benefits, joint and several liability of manufacturers, wholesalers and consultants, limitation periods, and the retroactive effect of the Act.
In Force: December 7, 2023