"Four years after the family of deceased Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs filed a wrongful death suit against the Angels, and two months into often contentious testimony in an Orange County Superior Court courtroom, jurors are set to begin deliberations on whether Skaggs' widow and parents deserve hundreds of millions of dollars. During closing statements Monday, plaintiffs lawyer Daniel Dutko argued that the Angels were negligent in failing to supervise Eric Kay, the drug-addicted team communications director who gave Skaggs the fentanyl that killed him in 2019."
""Insurance companies are in the business of mitigating risk; they don't like uncertainty," said Brian Panish, a Los Angeles personal injury lawyer who was not involved in the case but has won several landmark jury verdicts. "They calculate risk and proceed from there. In this case we are talking about multiple insurance companies, a tower of insurance.""
Four years after Tyler Skaggs' family filed a wrongful death suit, jurors are set to begin deliberations over hundreds of millions in damages. Plaintiffs contend the Angels negligently failed to supervise team communications director Eric Kay, whose drug addiction and provision of fentanyl led to Skaggs' 2019 death. Defense maintains Skaggs was a secretive opioid addict who manipulated Kay to obtain drugs and argues the Angels owe no award. Multiple insurance companies provide coverage for the Angels and could pursue an 11th-hour settlement to limit uncertainty. Legal experts note insurers often mitigate risk through settlement negotiations or high-low agreements.
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