Posted on 08/22/2013 6:36:07 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
SPRINGFIELD - Kimberly Chartier - whose husband died of cardiac arrest in the stands of a New England Patriots game in 2010 - has filed a civil suit in Hampden Superior Court against the team and the National Football League.
Chartier, of Chicopee - who is suing on behalf of her son Tedy - is seeking at least $10 million alleging the Patriots, the National Football League, and three other parties are responsible for the wrongful death of her husband Jeffrey A. Chartier.
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Sounds more like a lawyer is taking her to the cleaners.
“”Obama son look a like””
GREAT idea. I’ve never used the “N” word in my life but couldn’t we start calling someone “an Obama” as a substitute for those inclined to use the other? How soon do you think someone would propose a law against it? It could even be called a hate crime and I bet that’s one that would be actually be prosecuted as a hate crime..
If the stress of a confrontation with security was enough to push him to a heart attack then the stress of a close game probably would have also. There’s a lot of potential sources of stress at a sporting event.
I’m pretty sure it says they can remove you from the stadium for any reason. He wasn’t removed. He was questioned about why his son was on the field.
If you have a heart attack when you are questioned, it’s hard to see how that is the fault of the person questioning you. It’s not like the guard tazed him. It would be unreasonable to expect a security guard to know that talking to a person could give them a heart attack.
Also, it will be hard for her to prove that the guard was even negligent, given that she has no direct knowledge of what the guard said. She’d have to prove that the guard purposely said things to get her husband riled up, and even then I doubt that “excessive talking-to” will ever rise to the level of negligence.
And if the conversation went on for 15 minutes, it would suggest that the guy was an active participant, and probably working himself up quite a bit. You really need to take responsibility for your own actions.
Lastly, it appears he had the heart attack at a moment when he was seated and was not being spoken to by the guard. Which also makes me wonder whether the guard was close enough to really KNOW that the guy was having a heart attack. The story isn’t clear, I’ll have to look for another one.
The story is a sad one. Why would NFL referees invite some random 6-year-old to run up and down the field with them? They were the first problem.
Imagine if that 6-year-old got injured while running around on a field they had no real business being on. I’m sure this mother would be suing everybody for a dangerous environment for her child.
What if the father had had his hard attack when he was handing his child down onto the field, or picking the child up off the field (the story never says WHO it was who did this, so I could assume it was the father). Would she then have sued them for not providing convenient field access for her child?
Do these officials invite every 6-year-old who shows up 2 hours before the game to come and run around the field?
Of course the security guard is going to ask what is happening. And the father should not be arguing with the security guard, but rather trying to find the NFL official who supposedly invited the child onto the field.
I can well imagine being that security guard, and asking the father why he just put his child onto the field without a proper pass.
I can imagine the father, rather than understanding this, to start berating the guard, calling him names, which would lead the guard to argue with the father.
I don’t know. It looks like maybe the security creep went all TSA on the guy. In which case, any amounts paid to the family by the security creep, its employer, the Patriots, and the NFL are richly deserved.
Folks gotta stop acting like jackasses when given an iota of authority, whether it be by law or by private contract.
i don’t think the heart attack has to happen at moment he waw speaking to the guard... they are saying it led to the death... caused it... it’s Boston... it might work there... in any case, i would not be sad if the guard lost his job..
how sad that a 6-year old cannot be invited onto the field without concerns of law suits... they were there early and were shown a privilege... favor... how awful that a stupid security guard made a special moment very ugly... even if he did not cause the father’s death...
At any particular game, you might have 100 6-year-olds who would show up early if you would let them run around the field. But the field is not child-proof. How do you pick which one of the 100 or so get to run on the field?
You could handle the danger by getting signed releases, but if the field is “unnecessarily” dangerous, a release might not help. If the father dropped the child handing him over a railing, for example, a lawsuit could claim that counting on a father to be able to hold a child and let them down was unreasonable, and that the club should provide access if they are going to let people from the stands onto the field.
And if you are going to get signed releases, you need a process. Which they already have, and which includes field passes. Which the father and son did not have. Which the guards are told are necessary parts of being on the field.
Yeah... as i said, it is so sad that its come to all those things you pointed out... btw, for whatever reason, they showed favor to that kid and that father... not any additional numbers of 6-year olds... too bad banty rooster had to mar it...
OK.... how exactly are they “responsible”? Did they serve him a Heart Attack Hot Dog?
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