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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
I wonder if there is a potential for a lawsuit against the oilers.
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Unless there is explicit evidence of ignoring team doctor recommendations, it will be tough to find the team itself liable.
And the team doctors themselves won't be held liable unless there is clear evidence that they ignored dangerously vulnerable symptoms, and their clearance to play affected the outcome. Regardless of their decision to clear him at that time, or wait a little longer, this is a hockey player with significant neck injury who returned to play a professional contact sport, and is at high risk of reinjury regardless. In addition, he played a long time after clearance, suggesting that their clearance timing was not the most important factor. They may have cleared him too early, but it's a tough argument to make that they directly impacted his outcome with timing of clearance. Remember that the flames doctors also cleared him to play multiple times.
