The plaintiffs brought a motion to amend their statement of claim to add 17 individual employees of a long-term care home as defendants in a personal injury action.
The defendants brought a cross-motion to strike the pleadings against the individual employees, arguing the pleadings failed to disclose a reasonable cause of action against them personally.
The court granted the plaintiffs' motion to add the defendants, finding no non-compensable prejudice or abuse of process.
However, the court also granted the defendants' cross-motion to strike the pleadings against the individual employees because the statement of claim lumped them together without specifying the material facts of each individual's alleged negligence.
The court granted the plaintiffs leave to amend the pleadings to cure the deficiencies.
