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Old 05-13-2013, 09:30 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14 View Post
I was about to make a similar comment. The NHL should countersue the family, since everything the family alleges applies to them. They allowed him to choose a career where he suffered head trauma. They failed to monitor his perscriptions. And and his brother helped him purchase additional drugs illegally.

The family's reaction is understandable, but anything the NHL is guilty of, they are twice over.
The family wasn't prescribing him medication, and therefore had no duty to monitor his prescriptions. The family wasn't operating a drug treatment program, and therefore had no duty to comply with the standards of that program.

His family likely should have done a better job of looking out for him much earlier in his life/career, but that has nothing to do with legal liability.
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