Jean-Pierre Ménard

• Family calls for more palliative care after Laval hospital sent their dying mother home

  The family of a 72-year-old woman who died just hours after being discharged from a Laval hospital is waiting for answers and hasn't ruled out taking legal action.

  Canada

  Nov 20, 2019
• Montreal medical malpractice lawyer receives justice award in Quebec City

  Jean-Pierre Ménard's decades of legal advocacy include fighting to protect the rights of patients against the health-care system and medical malpractice.

  Canada

  Sep 24, 2019
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• Quebecers behind assisted dying ruling want to see it become election issue

  Two Quebecers who were successful in getting a court to invalidate sections of the federal and Quebec laws on medically assisted dying want the issue to be given a prominent place on the federal campaign trail.

  Health

  Sep 12, 2019
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• Language barrier causes St. Mary’s Hospital to allegedly refuse services to elderly patient

  Lien Quan, 91, and her family claim she was refused services at St. Mary's hospital because she did not speak English.

  Health

  Jun 5, 2019
• Quebec plaintiff in assisted death case says he wants an end to suffering

  Under federal law, natural death must be "reasonably foreseeable" before someone can receive medical assistance in dying. The Quebec law similarly says people must "be at the end of life."

  Canada

  Jan 8, 2019
• Quebecers want to change medically-assisted death laws

  Two Quebecers suffering from incurable degenerative diseases were in court challenging laws that leave them ineligible for medically-assisted death.

  Health

  Jan 7, 2019
• Deal struck in 2012 case of Quebec City legionnaires’ disease outbreak that killed 14

  Victims of the 2012 legionnaires' disease outbreak in Quebec City that killed 14 people and affected 167 others have reached an agreement-in-principle with defendants in a class action lawsuit.

  Health

  Sep 10, 2018
• EXCLUSIVE: Heartbroken families of children with autism team up for legal fight against Quebec

  At least eight families are teaming up with the Centre for Research Action on Race Relations to launch legal action against the Quebec government over the lack of services for their children with autism.

  Canada

  Feb 14, 2018
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• Lawyer calling on Quebec government to review criteria for ‘exceptional needs’ supplement

  Most of the families who apply for Quebec's new supplement for children with exceptional needs are being turned down — 54 per cent to be exact.

  Canada

  Nov 23, 2017
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• Legionella class action may have more defendants

  An outbreak of a rare disease in 2012 caused 14 deaths in Quebec City, Five years later, victims of a class-action lawsuit still don't know who to hold responsible.

  Health

  Jun 5, 2017