R-2.2.0.0.1 - Tobacco-related Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act

Section 9 Disposition versions

2009-06-19

9. The Government has the right to recover directly, from one or more tobacco product manufacturers, tobacco-related health care costs caused or contributed to by a wrong committed by a tobacco product manufacturer, in particular, failure to inform the public of the risks and dangers posed by tobacco products.

This right is not a subrogated right. It belongs to the Government in its own right, and exists even if health care recipients or other persons have received damages for injury caused or contributed to by a wrong committed by a tobacco product manufacturer.

2009, c. 34, s. 9.