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Originally Posted by blankall
You only need to prove intent towards the action, not the outcome. Bertuzzi clearly intended to punch Moore. From that point on, unless you can prove that what happened next was either too unforseeable or too remote, anything beyond that point flows from the punch.
I bet Moore gets a large pay day.
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I would think it would be fairly easy to prove that the rest was unforseeable, there is no way that any of what injured Moore was done by intent. I mean, call me crazy, but if Bertuzzi can give a guy a severe concussion, a tear in his frontal lobe, and break a few vertebrae with one errant punch, then he's clearly in the wrong profession.
I don't know a heck of a lot about the legal side, but I know that it's pretty clear that Bertuzzi did not intend to injure Moore the way he did. It happened on the ice, and it ended Moore's career, but I'm not sure how it's still a viable lawsuit. Dany Heatley killed Dan Snyder by driving like a fool, killed him, not made his life hard, killed him, and would he have owed the Snyder family tens of millions of dollars? Hard to say really.
I don't believe Moore is owed 38 million dollars. I believe he is owed his medical expenses, certainly, perhaps some compensation on top of that, but I don't see where the 38 million is created.