Guatemalan man's estate entitled to redress after court says death was linked to work
The high court ruled in majority 2-1 decision that Ottoniel Lares Batzibal was on the job when he died and his estate should have been compensated.
Previously, Quebec's workers health and safety board, the CNESST, had denied the claim because they didn't believe the death fit the criteria of a workplace death.
The estate eventually was granted leave to appeal the matter before the Court of Appeal.
In the July 31 ruling, two of the three-judge panel ruled the worker's death was an occupational injury and the appeal should be allowed.
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Batzibal died on July 18, 2021, after becoming trapped under a car in the garage of a fruit and vegetable farm south of Quebec City where he'd worked for several years.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 7, 2025.
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