More than four years after the family of the deceased Kuvshin Angels Tyler Skaggs filed unlawful death against AngelsThe choice of jury will begin on Monday in the Supreme Court of the Okhinj County.
The widow of Skagga Carly Skggs and the parents of Debra Hetman and Darrell Skggs said in court that they were looking for at least 210 million dollars in the form of lost income and losses. Angel’s lawyer said at a preliminary hearing that the plaintiffs are now looking for a decision of 1 billion dollars, although the leading lawyer representing the family said that this number is an exaggeration.
It is expected that the test will last several weeks. The preliminary opening included more than 50 indications, and the list of witnesses contains almost 80 names.
Lawyers of the SkgGS family strive to establish that the angels are responsible for the death of the 27-year-old left jug on July 1, 2019, after he snorted the crushed tablets, which contained a fentinel in a hotel room during a team trip to Texas.
The autopsy completed that Skaggs accidentally died from asphyxia after he aspirated his own vomiting while Under the influence Fentanila, oxycodone and alcohol.
Angels Communications Director Eric Kay provided Skaggs for fake Tablets of Oxycodon, which turned out to be pierced by fentanyl and Leaving 22 years in a federal prison For his role in death. Skaggs lawyers will try to prove that other angels knew that Kay was providing Skaggs opioids.
“Angels owe Tyler Skaggs to provide a safe place to work and play baseball,” the lawsuit says. “Angels broke their duty when they allowed Key, a drug addict, and complete access to Tyler. Angels also violated their duty when they allowed Ker to provide Tyler with dangerous illegal drugs. Angels had to know that Kay turned drugs to players. Tyler died as a result of violation of angels from duties. ”
The SkgGS family planned to name the numerous current and former players of angels as witnesses, including future glory halls Mike Trout and Albert Pujols, as well as the junki chinhi – Skaggs The best friend in the team – In an attempt to show that Skaggs was a fully functioning jug of the Mr. League, and not a drug addict.
Preliminary applications and hearings indicated that the angels tried to show that Skaggs was a long -standing user of drugs, who purchased tablets from sources except Kay. Mother Skaggs, Debbie Hetman, They testified during the Cay criminal process in 2022 That her son admitted that he had a “problem” with Oxycodon back in 2013.
Hetman said that her son threw a “cold turkey”, but she showed that the dependence remained a sufficient danger that Skaggs did not prescribe opioids after Tommy John in August 2014.
Judge H. Shain Kolver defeated the key strategy for the defense of the angels when she decided that the criminal condemnation of Kei could not be challenged during the civil process. The lawyer of the Angels Todd Theodore claimed that the new evidence indicates that Skaggs died of “heart arrhythmia, the second of the fact that Tyler drank from 10 to 15 drinks in it, in combination with Oxycodon, for which the baseball angels are not responsible.”
Theodore said that if the angels could prove that Kay was not guilty of reasonable doubt, neither Kay nor the team would be guilty of the death of Skaggs. Kolver, however, decided that “the condemnation of Kei, based on the applicable legislation and facts, was final.” Kay The appeal was rejected In the federal court in November 2023.
Preliminary deposits of the players of angels and auxiliary personnel gave a rare look at the noisy, often non -divided culture of the Club of the Major League.
Adchans Angels Clubhouse showed that Kay participated in such tricks as deliberately, removing fastball 85 miles per hour from his knee in a cage, forcing the jug to throw football on his face from a short distance, eat a beetle and eat acne from the back of the trout.
Tim Foreign Ministry, a longtime vice -president of the communication of angels and the leader Kay, admitted the same in his testimony, saying: “If you try to describe the club or locker room in professional sports, or even in college, and, probably, even the military in terms, and try to equate it to how we see this legal firm, or the corporation, you know that we do not solve it, do not solve, do not solve, do not solve, do not solve, do not solve it, do not solve it, we don’t solve it, we don’t solve it. What is, not so much that there is, not so many.
And a lot of painkillers. Former players of angels Matt Harvey, CJ Cron, Mike Morin and Cam Bedrosian They testified in the court of Kei The fact that he spread the blue 30 milligrams of oxycodon tablets on them at the Angel stadium. Skaggs, as shown by the testimony, were especially frequent customers.
The certificate showed that Kay was also a longtime user of Oxycodon and that the angels knew this. In the statement, the SkgGS family showed evidence that the doctor of the Angels Craig Milhaus team prescribed a hydrocodone Kay 15 times from 2009 to 2012. The SkgGS family also plans to call the trauta, which, in accordance with the testimony of the former accompanying club of the Angels of Chris Konstanti, proposed to pay for Kay rehabilitation in 2018.
Skaggs was the main prospect of Santa-Monica Hai in 2009, and the angels made him their first round. A year later, he was sold at the Arizona Diamondbacks and made his debut with them in the Major League in 2012.
Organized on angels in 2014, Skaggs Made an initial rotationWhere he stayed when he did not fight injuries until his death. Its figures were quite ordinary, 28-38 victory records of 4.41, average earned earnings in 96 career starts, but his lawyers pointed to his youth and escalation wages provided by the starting jugs with a jury award of at least 210 million dollars and up to 785 million dollars.
Skaggs earned $ 9.2 million, including $ 3.7 million. USA in 2019 – and will become a free agent after the 2020 season. Effective starting jugs at a similar age and comparable productivity can make perennial contracts in the amount of $ 100 million or more.
The death of Skaggs prompted MLB to start testing opioids and cocaine in 2020, but only players who do not cooperate with treatment plans are subject to discipline. Marijuana was removed from the list of drugs of abuse and is treated in the same way as alcohol.
MLB operator procedures Now it is required that Naloxon be preserved In club houses, gyms, dugouts and dressing rooms for all polar. Nalkson, also known as the Narcan brand, is an antidote from opioid poisoning.
