For six seasons, Derek Boogaard fought and bled in the National Hockey League as one of hockey’s most storied enforcers. He also popped pills and was administered injections to deal with the pain from those altercations.
Boogaard was found dead at 28 of an accidental overdose of prescription painkillers, mixed with alcohol, in May 2011.
According to the New York Times, his family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the NHL on Friday accusing the League of subjecting Boogaard to head trauma as an enforcer, irresponsibly medicating him and then failing to help Boogaard when his addictions to painkillers became apparent.
The law firm of Corboy & Demetrio filed the suit in Cook County, Ill.; the same firm that brought a case against the NFL on behalf of the family ofDave Duerson, who committed suicide in 2011 after battling C.T.E., "a progressive degenerative disease of the brain found in athletes (and others) with a history of repetitive brain trauma." Boogaard was posthumously diagnosed with C.T.E.
According to the Times, the suit goes after the NHL for its concussion protocol:
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