Hockey players awarded compensation
Three members of a Canadian ice hockey team will receive $2.25 million in compensation claims, for injuries suffered in a 2005 bus crash.
All three were found to have suffered personal injury as well as post-traumatic stress disorder.
The team’s injury lawyer, Moshe Horn, said: “The verdict demonstrates how seriously the jury was moved by the experiences of having witnessed the deaths of their close friends and teammates. While (they) were fortunate to have survived the crash, their lives haven’t been the same since.”
Four people died in the accident on 29 January, 2005, which happened when a bus transporting the Women’s hockey team smashed into a tractor-trailer, which was illegally parked. A further 16 people were injured.
The force of the impact almost sliced the bus in half, with the driver’s side mostly remaining intact, while the other side was obliterated.
The guilty bus company admitted public liability for 90 per cent of the crash and the company that owned the tractor-trailer, took responsibility for the remaining 10 per cent.
Several other compensation claims involving members of the team are still awaiting trial.
Updated on 15/03/2010