I watched a video by a sorce that can't be named on here about a lawsuit to LACR. Is this all true? Does anyone know what happened?
Supposedly a goggle brand family signed up to race and one brother raced a qualifier for the other brother. The other brother wrecked sued the track and won because he never signed the waiver his brother did.
UPDATE FROM ADMIN: This info can be found later in the thread but it's been edited into this first post for clarity reasons:
I just dug through the Cooksey video....let's clear up a bunch of inaccuracies.
1. It wasn't a Loretta Lynn Regional, the younger Taylor brother only attempted LL one time on 85s and never tried for it again. The crash was at a Road to Mammoth race.
2. The 15 foot down side berm was actually around 40-50 feet down a cliff/steep hillside. I remember the crash area because it was insanely sketchy how the section was built and I personally swapped and almost ate shit off that corner around two weeks before. Donn Maeda crashed in the same section the week prior at a Transworld race and requested the section be changed because he almost flew off the same cliff. Looking down the section you'd fly off, literally, scared the hell out of me...
3. The most obvious thing that can't be overlooked when you look up basic court docs, when injured if the injured party has major medical bills, the insurance company will sue anyone and everything attached to the incident to recoop their loss on the payout. The lawsuit is filed under the injured person's name, not the insurance company's name. If the injured party doesn't co-operate with the lawsuit, they will suspend payments to medical bills, etc.
Shitty part is most of this falls under NDAs and unless someone wants to get sued...it's hard to release details of the case itself.
4. Injuries to Zach were pretty severe, it wasn't just a broken pelvis. His total broken bone count was around 30. Shattered both ankles, his wrists, broken toes, broken sacrum, broken pelvis, collapsed a lung, and a ruptured bladder. He had three blood transfusions, and actually flat-lined at the hopsital. He was fucked up, over three weeks in UCLA hospital.
5. Rich would've gone to the hospital with Zach with the severity of his injuries, he's also over 200 pounds trying to pose as his 120lb 13 year old son the same day? Again, this was in late February, there was only one are qualifier for LL that had happened that year before that date, that was at ACP. There was no area or regional qualifiers for LL scheduled at LACR in 2017
Lots of good info to go off here.
https://unicourt.com/case/ca-ora-caseawca856fc316fe-1324785?init_S=csup…
It's because anytime somebody mentions Cooksey, dudes go off the rails and freak out. But if the facts he displayed in his videos is correct, then he's right. Every one that owns EKS goggles should take them straight to the trash can
That's it couldn't mention it. I believe things have been clipped for mentioning him.
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If it's the same one this has been in process for quite a while now. Also if it's the same one, concerns over the part of the track where this happened was brought up to the track owner and other track personnel by multiple people and these concerns were blown off and thought to be a non issue. I thought this was all over and done with though.
From what I can gather from the GoFund me page, it looks a 50 rider was practicing with big bikes, crashed and got ran over. The family is blaming the track and the flagger.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-paul-recover-from-terrible-crash
You talking about the 8 mile long, downhill straight on the vet track? This is actually the first I have heard of the lawsuit...
No sir. The old layout that had the long straightaway that led down hill into a left handed 180 with a 40+ foot drop on the backside.
That front straightaway needs to be fixed. They need to slow it down.
Edit: I was wrong and initially thought it was the vet track. Forgot to update this a few days ago.
Didn’t hear about that one! Hope the kid is ok. I have a few questions for the parents though….
100% on both.
Probably because of his “hot” takes like Eli being fired from Star or confirming Jett to KTM for 2025.
My understanding is that one IS over and done with.
Does anybody know where he got the info that RT raced under his son's name so he would qualify for the regional?
You gotta be a real POS to sue somebody over pretty much anything IMO. Unless there was some sort of gross negligence causing an injury, which doesn't seem to be the case here.
Trying to get a payout over something like this is despicable, even more so from a moto family. Screw these people.
While I agree with you and don't think should sue either, I can't imagine how much they owe in medical bills. The kid had to get lifeflighted out of there and then the Dad had a stroke.
I know on the one lawsuit Zach had done multiple motos that day and crashed, shortly there after he was mountain biking and racing again, but they have not settled the lawsuit yet. That was why LACR was shutdown a while back as the original insurance carrier left the market and they were having problems getting a new carrier to bind coverage with an open claim. As to the second lawsuit the kid was allowed by his parents to go out in open practice on a PW and he was landed on by a big bike. I hate to see anyone get hurt but we know the risks involved when we go out on the track, Zack is a pro and the parents never should have let the kid on the peewee on the track with full size bikes. This is one reason tracks close
That's unfortunate, but neither of those events are LACR's fault. I don't care how much they owe in medical bills, this is shady AF.
So medical bills get high sue? I know you aren’t saying that but it sure reads that way.
The pw parents shouldn’t get a dime. They knew the risk. Sucks for the kid though obviously.
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Its motocross, if they thought the track was too dangerous then don't race there, nobody is forcing you to race. The kid made a mistake on his own and ran off the track and hurt himself, there never should've been any lawsuit over that. Hopefully this business of his takes a hit, i'll never buy another pair
From Google
Subrogation is a legal doctrine that allows a third party to assume another party's legal right to collect damages or debts. For example, when an insurance company pays a policyholder for an injury, the policyholder's right to sue the person who caused the injury may be subrogated, or transferred, to the insurance company. The insurance company can then try to recover its costs from the person responsible for the injury or property damage.
So, you have insurance and YOU are satisfied. Your insurance company goes after a settlement for cost recovery. You as the client can't tell the insurance company to NOT sue. I'm not sure on all of the details but this is pretty standard in the insurance game. Above and beyond your medical bills and actual losses is another story.
Let your kid go out on the main track? That's just stupid bordering negligent.
Signing up under a different name? If this really happened, again, negligent on parents part. Fraudulent too I would think. Does this mean they will stop racing now since it's so dangerous? They just figured this out?
I don't own any EKS brand goggles.
Yep the whole situation is dodgy af behaviour. Ill never buy eks X brand goggles ever
is this the same case? because there are two
fu'c cooksey everything he does is tainted. its all in the name of views. even if thats detrimental to motocross. hes just as bad as the lawsuits are. same mentality, just a different vehicle for shittyness
Insurance company energy.
By any chance, do you work in insurance? I’m a commercial insurance broker so the jargon you chose makes complete sense lol
I'm really curious to see how this one plays out. If it's true, that's really disappointing. Rich always seemed like such a genuine dude whenever I would listen to him on pulp or other interviews.
I've never being wealthy in my life, I'm a blue collar hard worker just scraping to make ends meet BUT the one thing I've never gone without in my life is a fucking great medical Aid / cover.
I raced for 20 yrs and never paid a dime for three bad crashes....I've been hurt plenty.
The way I live my life dictates that I have to have good medical cover.
It is a sin to ride or race without covering yourself.
im lucky enough to live in a country that has this sort of insurance as govt policy, but if i travel overseas to ride, i make sure i have the insurance to cover it, and repatriation costs, and its never cheap,
The Taylor family v. LACR incident happened back in 2017 and finally saw the inside of a court room in 2021. I cannot find much after some tentative rulings in mid to late 2021
Stating the obvious, but it's always depressing seeing the constant need to duck responsibility and sue someone for an unfortunate event...
Nobody makes you ride a track and nobody makes you allow your child to ride a track, do some parenting and make the call.
If the other story is what we're talking about, fraudulently dodging a waiver and riding qualifying, presumably to try and get ahead of your competition which is pretty greasy in itself, is nobody's fault but your own, so they can fuck right off.
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