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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

ESPN, NFL Sued Over 2017 NFL Draft

www.forbes.com: ESPN and the National Football League are facing a lawsuit that alleges safety violations during the construction of a temporary stage built for the first NFL draft ever held entirely outdoors.

A New Jersey man who allegedly suffered head trauma, broken ribs and a ruptured spleen after a 30-foot fall while working on the temporary amphitheater for the 2017 NFL Draft in Philadelphia has filed a lawsuit against the NFL, ESPN and the event production company they hired.

1 comment:

Hsin said...

This is the nightmare-came-true case to tech designers and managers in scenic shops, however, I see this can be somehow described deadlock in our discipline. Both side held their end of the incident tight, the fact is the people from corporate should not make this lawsuit situation happen beforehand. But the worker who brought up the lawsuit is not wrong to me, any kind of working injury is resulted from both employee and employer. The problem is how the company should split responsibility. With the information provided by the article, I feel like the worker should get his reasonable amount of compensation due to the fact the injury actually happened when the construction was ongoing. In the other hand, the fact that the court was called a "Judicial Hellhole" bugged me a lot. I can surely understand that this might be seemed a fraud to the company, which is very sad.