La loi sur l'assurance automobile, fait-elle échec à un recours en responsabilité médicale et/ou hospitalière?
The Quebec legislator established with the Automobile Insurance Act a social compromise in which an automobile accident victim is entitled to automatic and limited compensation for an injury caused by an accident. In return, the compensation awarded to the victim of an automobile accident stands in lieu of all rights and remedies by reason of his bodily injury and no action in that respect shall be admitted before any court of justice. There is contradictory case law from the Superior Court of Quebec as to whether parallel proceedings before a civil court are allowed against an allegedly liable third party in a context of compensation paid by the SAAQ following an automobile accident. This essay analyses the scope of the Automobile Jnsurance Act to show that an act of medical malpractice and/ or a hospital's breach of duty subsequent to a car accident is a new fact, independent of the use of the car, thus breaking the causal link with the automobile and precluding the application of the law, despite that this fault occurred prior to the consolidation of the damages caused by the automobile accident and despite the compensation received by the victim for all its damage.
Assurance-automobiles--Droit, Actions et défenses, Procès (Responsabilité médicale
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