R-2.2.0.0.01 - Opioid-related Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act

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27. Despite any incompatible provision, the rules of Chapter II relating to actions brought on an individual basis apply, with the necessary modifications, to an action brought by a person or their heirs or other successors for recovery of damages for any opioid-related injury, including any health care costs, caused or contributed to by a wrong committed in Québec by one or more manufacturers or wholesalers of opioid products or by consultants to those manufacturers or wholesalers.
Those rules also apply to any class action based on the recovery of damages for the injury.
2023, c. 25, s. 27.