$210-million lawsuit launched against uOttawa and doctor Nadon
Posted Jul 4, 2018 07:57:00 PM.
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A Chelsea doctor, facing dozens of sex assault and voyeurism charges, stemming from incidents while he practiced medicine at University of Ottawa Health Services now faces a $210-million dollar class action lawsuit.
Vincent Nadon, 57, was charged earlier this year. The allegations against him involve video-taping and assaulting nearly 40 patients.
The university has been named in the lawsuit as well.
Attorney with Toronto law firm Flaherty McCarthy, Candice Mak, told OttawaMatters that they represent the lead plaintiff for the class action, and other patients with allegations against Nadon are thinking hard about whether or not to come forward.
“Those are the ones that, we understand, have gone to the police,” she explained. “And of course, it's common in sexual assault cases that victims are reluctant to come forward, completely understandable [because] they don't want to be re-victimized.”
Mak said Nadon is only “part of the problem.”
The University of Ottawa, as operators of the Health Services Centre, is named in the suit, and the lawyer adds many of the patients at the clinic were students who had an expectation they would be safe.
None of the allegations against Nadon, dating back to 1990, have been proven in court.
