Deadline approaching for claims in breast cancer class action settlement
A reminder for women who are part of the class action settlement for Quebec breast cancer waiting times that they have by the end of next month to file their claims.
The $5.4-million settlement was approved in late September.
Lawyers announced the agreement in principle over the summer for about 4,000 women, each of whom had waited more than 12 weeks for radiation therapy.
The women would be eligible for compensation of between $350 and $1,000 each.
Six hundred and fifty claims have been filed so far.
The case dates back to the late 1990s, when radiotherapy was so hard to come by that the province paid hospitals in New York and Vermont to treat patients from Quebec.
The settlement grants compensation to patients diagnosed with breast cancer whom, between October 13, 1997 and March 26, 2009, after undergoing conservative surgery without chemotherapy, waited more than 12 weeks from the date of their referral in radio-oncology at the 15 Quebec hospitals, including the McGill University Health Center (MUHC), the Jewish General Hospital and the CHUM.
Claims are best registered online at www.cancerwaitclaim.com. The claim form can also be downloaded from the website. Claimants may call the Administrator at 1-866-ATTENTE (1-866-288-3683).
The complete list of hospitals:
- Centre Hospitalier de Chicoutimi
- Centre Hospitalier des Vallées-De-L'Outaouais
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montréal (CHUM)
- Hôpital Notre-Dame, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montréal
(CHUM)
- Hotel-Dieu, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec (CHUQ)
- Hotel-Dieu de Quebec
- Centre Universitaire De Santé de l'Estrie Site Fleurimont
- Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont
- Jewish General Hospital
- McGill University Health Center (MUHC): Montreal General Hospital
- McGill University Health Center (MUHC): Royal Victoria Hospital
- Centre Hospitalier Regional de Trois-Rivières
- Centre Hospitalier Regional de Rimouski.
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