Sep 22, 2016 12:19 am | Deb Schmitz
Tainted blood victims who contracted hepatitis C before and after 1986-1990 are in court seeking equal compensation and to undo “…a basic unfairness” after failing to access some of the $240-million won last month by the 1986-1990 Hepatitis C Settlement Agreement climates,, an article by The Globe and Mail has reported.
In 2007, the Canadian government created two funds for the pre-’86 and post-’90 tainted blood victims. One of these funds was compensation for those who were infected and the other was “…intended to pay extra amounts for lost income and also to compensate the spouses and children of those who died.” (, 2016) This second fund ran out before it was accessed by many of the fund’s climates and is the reason for this current court case. Claimants are seeking additional funds to allow the second fund to do what it was created to do.
According to David Klein, the lawyer who negotiated the settlement for those infected pre-’86 and post-’90, “The government made a commitment back in 2007 when the agreement was approved to pay the pre-post people the same amount as ’86-’90 and they haven’t lived up to that commitment.” The current lawsuit is, therefore, trying to fix this wrong.
More information about this lawsuit can be found in a Globe and Mail‘s article by Gloria Galloway, here.