SENATOR DROPS SUIT AGAINST COMMONS OVER CAFETERIA FALL

Senator Fabian Manning has scrapped his lawsuit against the House of Commons over a slipand-fall in the parliamentary cafeteria, saying there was a “significant misunderstanding” between him and his lawyer about the scope and amount of damages to be claimed. The Conservative senator and his wife had filed a lawsuit on June 9 that sought damages for postconcussion syndrome, pain and other ailments after he slipped in the Centre Block cafeteria two years earlier. The suit, first reported by the National Post, asked for $250,000 plus unspecified special damages. The statement of claim said Manning had entered the cafeteria on June 9, 2015, when he slipped and hit his head so hard on the marble-tiled floor that he lost consciousness and was taken by ambulance to the Ottawa Hospital.