Families of residents of CHSLD Herron to receive settlement for first wave COVID-19 deaths
Posted May 6, 2021 8:10 pm.
MONTREAL (CityNews) – A $5.5 million settlement for the families of residents of CHSLD Herron, where 47 seniors died during the first wave of COVID-19, has been officially approved.
In a decision released Thursday, a Quebec Superior Court judge signed off on the agreement – reached amicably in March between the families and the home’s original management, the Katasa group.
The families had begun the process of filing a class-action lawsuit, but the settlement was agreed upon before it was authorized.
This affects about 300 to 500 people, and provides for compensation to the estates of deceased residents, the spouses or children of the deceased, and surviving residents who were present during the first wave, among others.
A coroner’s public inquest into COVID-19 deaths in Quebec’s long-term care homes was scheduled to focus on Herron to start, but that was pushed to the fall at the request of the home’s lawyers because of the proposed class action.
