{"id":30496,"date":"2012-02-03T00:43:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T00:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wagners1.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/nova-scotia-court-of-appeal-upholds-fatal-injuries-act-limitation-period\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T20:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:44:42","slug":"nova-scotia-court-of-appeal-upholds-fatal-injuries-act-limitation-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/blog\/nova-scotia-court-of-appeal-upholds-fatal-injuries-act-limitation-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia Court of Appeal Upholds Fatal Injuries Act Limitation Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-header\"><\/div>\n<p>On April 2, 2019, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal released the decision of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/ns\/nsca\/doc\/2019\/2019nsca24\/2019nsca24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <em>Bond v. Willson<\/em>, 2019 NSCA 24, <\/a>which upholds the result Wagners obtained in an earlier decision released in late 2018 by the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n<p>The Plaintiff in this case brought an action on behalf of his mother, who died as a result of an alleged pharmacy error. Counsel for the pharmacists and pharmacy argued that a limitation period for malpractice found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nslegislature.ca\/legc\/bills\/61st_3rd\/3rd_read\/b013.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Pharmacy Act <\/em><\/a>should prevent the Plaintiff from bringing his claim. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia found that the <em>Pharmacy Act<\/em> limitation period was irrelevant to an action brought on behalf of a deceased family member, which the Defendants appealed.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal upheld this result, finding that family members of a deceased have a full year from the date of death to bring an action on behalf of a loved one \u2013 so long as the deceased had a valid claim at the time of their death.<\/p>\n<p>This decision clarifies the state of the law surrounding fatal injuries. It affirms the one-year limitation period provided for in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nslegislature.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/legc\/statutes%20HTML\/fatal%20injuries.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fatal Injuries Act<\/a> <\/em>becomes available to claimants where a deceased family member could have brought a legal action at the time of their death.<\/p>\n<p>While the limitation period provided by the Nova Scotia <em>Fatal Injuries Act <\/em>is shorter than similar provisions in most of Canada, this decision from the Court of Appeal provides certainty for grieving families. It ensures that the already-short limitation period for fatal injuries is not further eroded by other limitation periods.<\/p>\n<p>As <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" title=\"Our Practice Areas | Legal Services You Can Rely On\" href=\"https:\/\/wagners.co\/practice-areas\/\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1047794\">Wagners<\/a> continues to advocate for change to allow grieving families more time to commence a legal action when a family member dies as the result of negligence, this decision ensures that the full limitation period provided in the <em>Fatal Injuries Act <\/em>will be available when a loved one dies with a legal right of action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 2, 2019, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal released the decision of Bond v. Willson, 2019 NSCA 24, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31967,"href":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30496\/revisions\/31967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}