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I don’t know their relationship with each other but both parties are French so im assuming Marv and Mathilde were helping Brian and his family get familiar with racing over here and were close to the situation when it happened
Musquins were at his side throughout, I seem to remember. They can probably add some testimony about those early hours/days after the injury, I'd imagine. So much of our industry is tied up in this mess. Will be interesting to see the outcome (which I'll read about somewhere else since our media doesn't wanna cover it) - lol
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I use “then what?” in a lot of situations in life. Let’s use it here. Let’s say every media outlet from Racer X to Walty Wanders was there covering every second of this trial like it was the Diddy trial. Then what? If you’re sitting there saying there’s a cover up and lack of media coverage what would happen if the media blasted it out on every platform available? If there was a revealing article published on the Feld family that revealed all their dirty secrets then what? Will you stop watching Supercross? Many without any medical background criticize how he was handled and he should’ve been on a backboard. I have a cousin that’s a trauma nurse that said newer studies and training say that’s not always the best treatment. I have no dog in this fight nor do I work for Feld or the media. I’m just curious to hear what would change if there was industry wide media coverage of this.
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Also Stephan Degrand a.k.a. Le Big USA, who took the famous and notorious pictures.
Then we can get meaningful change in safety standard, which will/should hopefully happen anyway. I'm not here to see anyone drug through the mud, but I do think that we need to take a step back and do whatever we can to make sure things like this no longer happen. Moto/SX is an inherently dangerous activity, we should be doing everything in our control to help mitigate that and from the looks of it this case and others did not adhere to that standard.
If you haven’t read the article on the link I posted a page or two back you should. I can see why no one in the small moto media world would dare to go after this story after reading what ol chap Feld is capable of.
You seem invested and knowledgeable of the happenings as it relates to the case. You also have a phone and internet. You investigate and report on it. Be a solution instead of a bitching douche on a forum.
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Then we would have relevant information about the case instead of speculation
Ya I’m pretty sure Brian was living with them when he came over with the TLD KTM team. I remember seeing pictures of Marvs wife helping Brian after the injury as well.
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That's all I've advocated for in regards to this story. At least the Moreau family could know that they left the sport safer than they found it and maybe some young man avoids his injury in the future.
This can only happen if the convo is brought out into the public forum.
This can only realistically happen if our media brings it up.
Any legal precedent or safety changes that come out of this case are going to go into effect whether Vital has an intern sitting in the gallery or not. The only reason media would cover the case would be to inform their readership/viewership, not to bring about change.
A verdict was reached today, no updates posted publicly yet unless someone has access to PACER.
Reading through a lot of the documents, Moreau's legal counsel was leaning heavily on the aspect of what pertained to proper medical procedures and if those on site were considered qualified in terms of process to evaluate an injury. Defendants attempted to dismiss the lawsuit last week one last time before it went to trial, arguing that FELD did not have authority over the medics and those associated with the medic crew were operating on their own independent status, and that dirt bikes are inhereintely dangerous and the only one that caused damage was Moreau "riding in an uncontrolled manner". There are a ton of documents on the depositions and information gathered, I would invite those twiddling with their thumbs to read some of them waiting for SD tomorrow.
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I’m no attorney but doesn’t the last document show not guilty?
gross negligence but didn't cause the injury. Not sure how you come to that conclusion with any certainty but that's the verdict. Feld wins.
I imagine that's the point: can't come to a conclusion with any certainty.
No, the crash caused the injury and some of the medical crew may have been negligent but did not cause the injury.
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I understand the conclusion they came to but you are asking them to know the unknowable. You cannot say their handling of him didn't make his injury worse. You can't know either way. The uncertainty worked to feld's favor by letter of the law. It's still pretty unsettling to me that you can agree they were grossly negligent but then say it didn't matter. It's always going to be the case that you can argue the riders injuries were from the crash itself, so by the logic in this case, feld and the medical crew can be as negligent as they want to be and there's nothing that can be done about it.
It’s civil law—it doesn’t need to be certain. The standard is a preponderance of the evidence. Basically, was it more likely than not that the medical team caused or exacerbated injuries. Jury said no.
Half the jury thought Feld was grossly negligent, but could not say that the preponderance of evidence showed they were the cause of Brian's injury. That's a fairly reasonable position.
Yeah, preponderance of evidence is the standard. To win, the plaintiff has to show it’s more probable than not that the negligence caused the injury. In a case like this the plaintiff starts with a significant burden of proof disadvantage. If the probability of paralysis from the crash itself is fairly high given how he landed and what he reported immediately after the crash (he couldn’t feel his legs before anyone touched him), it can be very difficult to show that the outcome would have been any better if proper precautions had been followed. If the defence can persuade the jury that there is a high probability that the crash was the cause of the injury, then whatever happened subsequently is practically moot - the proximate cause has already been identified. There would need to be pretty compelling evidence that the defendants made the injury worse. The negligence has to be the proximate cause of the outcome. That’s difficult to establish.
I’m not saying this to agree or disagree with the verdict. I’m just commenting on the general structure of the logic of this sort of case. A juror can think that a defendant screwed up very badly and that the screw up possibly made things worse while also thinking that the damage was most likely done before the defendant did anything.
Sucks for Brian. I hope he has the financial resources he needs.
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