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Originally Posted by Delgar
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.
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You are assuming Henderson's only source of income is from reffing in the NHL. It's possible he has a business on the side that will suffer as well.