Lawsuits in behalf of dead people are common. Thus, it is
somewhat puzzling that the National Hockey League is opposing the addition to the plaintiff class of Larry Zeidel, who was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after
he died. His addition to the lawsuit would serve to represent a class of
players diagnosed with brain diseases.
The NHL is arguing that former players do not have good
cause to their dead colleague, who died in 2014, because the players could have
known as long as 18 months ago that he had been diagnosed with CTE.
Zeidel’s diagnosis could not be confirmed
until after he died and his brain was autopsied.
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