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Originally Posted by MBates
I do not disagree that claiming patently absurd amounts is bad form...but the point is it is bad legal practice as you have said.
Do you disagree that an insurance company could be filing this in Henderson's name and he may have had literally no say in what number the lawyer chose to put in?
People are literally posting here that Henderson's character can be judged by this piece of paper and all he might have had to do with it was he has submitted an insurance claim and collected some benefits from the policy.
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A few points:
-Henderson should not be attacked for his lawyer putting a silly number in. He does deserve compensation, there is no doubt he was injured and he shouldn't have been injured.
-It gives me pause to criticize the strategy of the inflated number now that we know who filed the claim, he's a great lawyer and very experienced. But I'm certainly surprised.
-I am almost certain that this is not a subrogated claim by the insurer, but even if it were, there is no reason for the $10 million loss of income claim. It is not justifiable on even the best possible scenario.
Consider his absolute highest damages scenario: Let's say he earns $300K US per year (which he doesn't, probably half that) and that he would work in the NHL as a linesman for another 15 years (which he wouldn't), and using a very generous US/Can conversion, you could argue he has a $6M Canadian loss.
But then you have to take into account the present value and the discount rate, which will reduce the actual award accordingly.