Judge awards nurse nearly $61,000 after she was attacked by dog in N.S. home

A justice has ordered a Halifax-area mates to wage astir $61,000 successful damages and $4,000 successful tribunal costs aft their canine attacked a caregiver successful their location successful 2016.

In a written determination dated Sept. 19, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Christa Brothers ruled that Harvey Hayden and Susan Forest were negligent successful failing to power their canine erstwhile they knew the caregiver would beryllium successful their Spryfield, N.S., home.

Lynn Patterson, who astatine the clip worked arsenic a licensed applicable caregiver for the Victorian Order of Nurses, was attacked by the couple’s vale bulldog during a sojourn successful May 2016.

The justice says Patterson sustained a “significant” wound to her close limb and a wound to her back, resulting successful chronic anxiousness and panic attacks.

The tribunal papers says the mates didn’t look successful tribunal until April of this twelvemonth — contempt being sent a registered missive successful 2017 informing them astir the ineligible action.

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Brothers rejected the couple’s arguments that they didn’t cognize astir the suit against them, saying determination were repeated attempts to get them to respond.

The justice noted successful her ruling that the mates has informed the tribunal that they don’t person the wealth to wage the damages.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Oct. 10, 2024.