The father of the late Steve Montador, who has been embroiled in a six-year fight with the NHL, opened a new front in the legal battle by filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the league. rwesthead has more:
The lawsuit was filed Oct. 26 and comes 10 months after a judge terminated Paul Montador’s five-year-old wrongful lawsuit filed in U.S. federal court.The judge in that case wrote that some claims made by Paul were preempted by the NHL’s collective labour agreement with the NHLPA, which directs players with medical-related grievances to pursue private arbitration.
“The NHL, armed with vastly superior managerial, medical, legal, and other resources to gather, analyze, and understand sub-concussion, concussion and head injury data, failed to keep Steven Montador reasonably safe during his career and misled him on the permanent ramifications of brain trauma,” the lawsuit says.
Steve played 10 NHL seasons with six teams and had a well-documented history of concussions, depression, memory problems and erratic behaviour. He played 571 NHL games during a 14-year pro career that included stints with Calgary, Florida, Anaheim, Boston, Buffalo and Chicago.
Toronto neurosurgeon Dr. Charles Tator told a government hearing in Ottawa in 2019 that he examined Montador’s medical records and discovered that he had actually suffered 19 documented concussions. The league"supposedly studied the frequency, timing, duration of symptoms" and other data for brain traumas suffered by NHL players from 1997 through 2004.
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